Okorafor’s spellbinding new novel follows Zelu, a once-struggling writer grappling with power, privilege, agency and art ...

This short scene conceals the names of 13 books published in the middle decades of the 20th century. See if you can find them ...

Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does.

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43 weeks on the list ... New this week The author of “The Splendid and the Vile” portrays the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of the Civil War. If a book ...

Gilbert Cruz, hello. Melissa, hi. OK, so every year, the staff of “The New York Times Book Review” puts out a list of the 10 best books of the year. It has just come out. Tell me about how ...

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 ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. By A.O. Scott Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Clay McLeod Chapman kept hearing friends say, of their Fox ...