The narcotic farm promised a more humane approach to drug treatment, but the reality was more complicated, Oklahoma State ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

On three new Jewish books about the Jewish books that helped define the mid-20th century American Jewish community, and why ...

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In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.

"This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and ...

In the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (“Cien Años de Soledad”), the literary masterpiece ...

This weighty book of lush interior shots selected and ... Edwardian and early 20th century London. On top of that, about half the homes in it no longer exist, not to mention the fading and ...

The border conflicts between Colombia and its neighbors were resolved in a series of treaties that were negotiated and ratified in the first decades of the twentieth century. The absence of ...

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

These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

Heaven knows, the sport of boxing has given us some truly amazing people, some surreal characters over the years. From ...