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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 ...

Recent court filings reveal startling accusations against Sean "Diddy" Combs, suggesting he offered millions to arrange the killings of Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight. These claims, from a 2009 ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Steve Haining and Ciara Antoski went deeper than the no-decompression limit at a wreck in 50 metres of water off the coast ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

A prison interview with Tupac recorded a year before his killing revealed the rapper's plans for the future. The rapper - full name Tupac Shakur - was gunned down after watching a boxing match in ...

Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...

In a bombshell revelation, Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused of offering "millions" to orchestrate the murder of Tupac Shakur, according to newly surfaced court documents. A 2009 interview with ...

The bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” has a new masterful legal thriller. A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend ...