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

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

As she anticipates her estranged uncle’s return to the White House, Mary Trump isn’t expecting any future book to catch on ...

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

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A good historical novel has the power to transport us back to a different time and make it seem as real and immediate as our present moment. When it’s done well, a period piece shouldn’t feel ...

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

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Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review ... From the Material,” the best-selling author Alan Lightman examines ...