With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along. By Tim Teeman Caroline Palmer’s novel, “Workhorse, ...

20 years later, and with the release of a brand-new edition, Matthew Stover's novel transcends adaptation to deliver a story that gets into what makes 'Star Wars' work. 'Future Boy: Back to the Future ...

On their new albums, the punk rockers and rapper break all the rules. Oct 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen Arguably no American journalist wielded as much influence as Walter Lippmann did ...

An excerpt from Monday's long decision by Judge Douglas Cole (S.D. Ohio) in Cahall v. Cole New Richmond Exempted Village School Dist. Bd. of Ed.: Plaintiff Karen Cahall is a third-grade math and ...

Vivian Koonce is 91 years of age now, a veteran local math teacher obsessed with her subject matter since childhood. On summer vacations, she took math books along, not novels. Today, she still reads ...

What do bed and breakfast owners, vampire-hunting bartenders, senior citizen sleuths and nepo babies have in common? Probably not much, but they’re featured in some of the new books we think you ...

Update Published Oct. 2, 2025: This article, originally published in 2024, has been updated to reflect the latest findings in PEN America’s banned books report, “Banned in the U.S.A.” The list at the ...

Angela Buchdahl, who leads a prominent synagogue in New York City, writes about her improbable rise from an early childhood in Korea to her current position ...

Fans of superheroes, hard-boiled detectives, and sci-fi who came of age in the 1930s through the 1970s were accustomed to asking store proprietors where they stocked their comics. And if they ran ...

Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 2 to 4. By The New York Times Books Staff We polled our editors and writers about the best books for the preschool set. These are our favorites. This ...

Students at a school district in Kentucky are putting down their phones and cracking books at a record pace now that devices are banned during class, district officials said. The head-spinning shift ...

Scientists at Cambridge University and Jerusalem's Hebrew University selected the problem to pose to ChatGPT because of its non-obvious solution. Since Plato's writing 2,400 years ago, scholars have ...