Here are the books we're most excited to read in 2025, from debut novels to new releases from old favorites in genres like ...

There are slimmer sci-fi pickings than usual at the end of the year, but gems can still be found, whether that’s a visit to George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card universe, or a graphic novel adaptation of C ...

T he best of this year's fiction features characters who, like so many, feel like they don't belong anywhere, even when they're with the people they love. Some are foreigners in their cities, others ...

New novels by Peter F. Hamilton, Lavanya Lakshminarayan and Maurice Broaddus bring us to the stars and beyond.

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The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel ... By Jennifer Harlan With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the “Watchmen” author wants ...

When it came time to compile the possible contenders for the 2024 Biblioracle Book Awards for fiction, I came up with 20 ...

Discover what brain science says about how reading fiction can make you a better leader. Learn which brain processes are ...

An Image of My Name Enters America, by Lucy Ives 2024 was the year of the breakup book; you couldn’t encounter the new-releases table at the bookstore without running into a flurry of wonderful ...

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.

FICTION PICK OF THE WEEK A Song to Drown Rivers ... it’s a beautifully written book, well-paced, full of political intrigue, and narrated by a fascinating character fully aware of the ...