Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...

Oline Cogdill’s favorite mystery novels of 2024, a year marked by rich plots, diverse and fully realized characters and vivid ...

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

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election ...

Let the Sun In’ A leading figure in mid-century American design, Alexander Girard is perhaps best known for the vivid colour ...

The best writing about the domestic ... with a special interest in children’s books Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s ...

Her own rags-to-riches story mirrored those of many of her resilient heroines, and her dozens of novels helped her amass a ...

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

"Giant Love" author Julie Gilbert is the great-niece and biographer of Edna Ferber ... a tiny but indomitable dynamo who ...

Don’t trust anybody. Okay, that’s a bad way to start an article recommending some movies, but it’s the only acceptable ...

Author Barbara Taylor Bradford, known for best-selling novels including A Woman of Substance, has died at the age of 91.