Through a series of vignettes, Kauffman’s fifth novel centers on a woman determined to spend Christmas with her extended ...

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill ...

His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations ...

I have never engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations ...

In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...

In “The Harder I Fight the More I Love You,” the singer and songwriter outlines the personal and professional challenges that ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

The novel “A Calamity of Noble Houses” tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families ...

After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own ...