NYT Books

Esther Freud returns to the autofictional world of her breakout novel, “Hideous Kinky,” published more than 30 years ago.

Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by his wife, Janet Ahlberg, including classics like “Each Peach Pear Plum.”

A new, career-spanning essay collection shows how she has never lost touch with the mischievous creativity of her 7-year-old self.

Her hits included “The Exorcist” and “The Thorn Birds,” as well as the autobiography of Betty Ford and an authorized biography of Warren Buffett.

Nine artists on how American censorship changed their work and their lives.

At shops across the country, some of the most popular sales associates have four legs, twitchy ears and whiskers.

An adaptation of the Benjamin Britten opera, in turn based on Melville’s classic novella, joins a lineage of beautiful enigmas.

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.

A hundred years after F. Scott Fitzgerald published his classic novel, a trip around Manhasset Bay shows how little has changed.