Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in December.

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As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding in July 2026, the nation must confront a stark reality: Americans are more polarized than they’ve been in decades. Among the key ...

Newsweek staff has gathered an eclectic list of classics and new favorite reads that will appeal, no matter how choosy the ...

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

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

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...

As the world braces for the "Wicked" movie, Stacker compiled Metacritic and IMDb data to rank the best movie musicals based ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.