NYT Books

In anticipation of the nation’s 250th anniversary, a Pulitzer winner visited 300 sites to see how history is displayed and, sometimes, erased.

These single-serving satires, family dramas and romances can be read cover-to-cover in one sun-dappled afternoon.

Novels by Emma Straub, Ben Lerner and TJ Klune; nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lena Dunham; a road trip history of the United States; and more.

Part horror, part fable, the latest novel by Marie NDiaye to be translated into English is an exacting portrait of domestic entrapment and psychological turmoil.

Books by Marie NDiaye, Daniel Kehlmann and Rene Karabash are among the shortlisted titles for the major award for fiction translated into English.

The sloppy, solipsistic narrator of Kirsten King’s novel, “A Good Person,” casts a witchy spell on a guy who dumped her. Hours later, he’s been stabbed to death.

The Upper West Side performing arts venue will take its programming across the city while its doors close for a 15-month overhaul.

George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable.

Her best-selling series, about four children who live in a train car and solve mysteries, inspired sequels, spinoffs and animated films.

Samuel Pepys’s journals are an invaluable record of British history. A new book reconsiders his infamous sexual exploits.