Appearing on the cover of this week’s Stylist magazine to celebrate the release of her powerful new poetry book, Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman talks about her truly remarkable year and what she’s got her sights set on next.  This time a year ago, not many people knew the name Amanda Gorman, but from her family home in LA […]

The season’s latest releases take up the New England Patriots, the origin story of Giannis Antetokounmpo — and the role of discrimination, protests and money in the world of athletics. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Oskar Garcia Sports fans can easily […]

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Deborah Solomon MAGRITTE A LifeBy Alex Danchev with Sarah Whitfield Even people who do not recognize the name René Magritte are likely to recognize his bowler-hatted man, that solitary wanderer in a dark overcoat who haunts so many of his paintings. At times he […]

Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. FICTION How Beautiful We Were By Imbolo Mbue Following her 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating second novel […]

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info In fact, as the superstar author explains: “During the course of my research I went to the US Centers for […]

Over its 125 year history, the advertisements in the Book Review occasionally held out the promise of self-improvement. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Tina Jordan By the time this advertisement appeared in the Book Review on Aug. 14, 1927, the idea […]

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info At least they would be living in splendour as they waited for the freedom that the imminent war’s end would […]

By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Attack” didn’t seem like the right word, and neither did “mauling.” In Nastassja Martin’s new book, “In the Eye of the Wild,” she calls it “combat” before eventually settling on “the encounter between the bear and me.” She suggests that what happened […]

By Molly Young When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “White on White” is a painting by the avant-garde Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, who died in 1935, and it is un-Googleable. You can look it up, of course, but gazing at a JPEG of the work is like gazing at a picture […]

Fatima Daas’s debut book explores the writer’s conflicted identities as a lesbian, Muslim woman with an immigrant background. In France, it was an unlikely literary hit. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Julia Webster Ayuso PARIS — Fatima Daas was used to […]