The late 20th century marked a significant turning point as the UAE’s rapid development brought heightened exposure to global ...

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

This year, established manga publishers jostled on the shelves with prestige graphic novel publishers, prose publishers ...

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...

November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Whenever I deliver a new novel, I always think: well this one is really dark,” says David Nicholls as he lists the ...

Lara Pawson’s Spent Light, disturbing and funny hybrid prose, has stayed with me since I read it last ... is a book that will ...

In today’s algorithm-driven world what has become of embodied eroticism, of desire, of seeking and celebrating beauty, of intimate vulnerability, or vulnerable intimacy?

The legendary storyteller – who has two new books out – says the act of creation is the purest essence of magic itself ...

Our critics have picked their favourite books of the year and reviewed them all for you in our Christmas Fiction round up.

"SPIES: The Epic Intelligence War Between the East and the West" by Calder Walton is a sweeping, meticulously researched ...