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 ...

By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

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.

Heather Paul-Tillery reads her original poem "Oh Whale" January 6, 2025 • Heather Paul-Tillery reads her original poem ...

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

In the book’s final pages, the daughter’s outcome makes clear that the gulls got off easy. With her poetry collection “Museum of the Soon to Depart” (Carnegie Mellon University Press ...

The trials and tribulations of the world’s first seed bank reveal botanists’ enormous generosity and sacrifice during the siege of Leningrad.

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...

‘The Story of Eve: Selected Poems’ is the first-ever collection of Zehra Nigah’s poems in English in a book form The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February ...