Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, ...

Four slices of time, across nearly seven decades, draw into one in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s novel.

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village ...

In Matthew Pearl’s novel, an ambitious writer finds that the editor downstairs is more hindrance than help.

The Viper” is Brad Meltzer’s third novel featuring mortician Zig and Nola, a military artist, and their uneasy relationship.

At its core, The Einstein Conspiracy is a meditation on evil; specifically, the depths of cruelty human beings are capable of ...

Helen Oyeyemi’s books are getting weirder — and I mean that in the best way. “A New New Me,” her eighth novel, follows Kinga, a 40-year-old Polish woman who, on the Monday we meet her, becomes a Czech ...

I’m tempted to call “The Phoebe Variations” a came-of-age book. Wisconsin writer Jane Hamilton’s eighth novel – the “A Map of the World” writer’s first since “The Excellent Lombards” in 2016 – is of a ...

I thoroughly enjoyed Mark Kulansky’s new novel, Cheesecake, set in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1980s. West 86th street to be precise. Kurlansky captures the feel of the neighborhood, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Best of The Strand Magazine,” edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli (Blackstone) What a treat this book is: the best of Strand Magazine’s mysteries ...

This week’s Summerville Reads picks include Beth Vrabel’s middle-grade caper, Neil Shea’s Arctic reporting and Adam Johnson’s ...

Reading blindly is an act of faith, and sometimes, the most satisfying one. Here are books that reveal their power only after ...