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

The reason this doesn't happen, in my opinion, is that actively accepting the directive of losing on purpose erodes the characteristic that truly defines the NBA and its participants and makes this ...

When the Prime Minister described Grace Tame as “difficult,” it echoed a label that outspoken, confident women have been handed for generations.

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Being a fan of George R.R. Martin has become an exercise in extreme patience, as the acclaimed fantasy author doles out ...

Taylor Sheridan can do it all, I guess, and that now includes making a knife out of a toothbrush. Simon & Schuster revealed on Tuesday that it will publish the debut book from the ...

Jack McCallum talks about the manuscript he recently finished for a novel, and explains why writing the romantic scenes has ...

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way ...

Starry and Restless,” by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha ...

The prolific author offers some clever spins on time travel and simulation theory in Tailored Realities At the tail end of 2025, Brandon Sanderson left his massive Cosmere fantasy universe behind for ...

The political debate around Vande Mataram cannot be understood without revisiting Anandamath, the 1882 novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay that embedded the song within a larger nationalist ...

Maria Cassano, a professional editor, shares six simple writing rules that make someone sound smarter and much more credible.