By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...

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.

A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy. A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner Try this short ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

Pull your ear forward and it’ll ping back, thanks to the elastic cartilage it’s made up of. Elastic cartilage is actually ...

S ometimes, coming up with a date activity that's as exciting and unique as your relationship can be just as difficult as ...

Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Prevention, The New York Times ...

Meanwhile, visiting professor and writer Agatha is doing research for a new book and wants to interview some of the students in Millie’s dorm. Jumping at the chance to increase her income ...

Dec. 30, 2024 — A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine relatives. It is found across the ...

It lets you read, work or craft with completely free hands, and concentrates light directly on the page or your task so you c ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. In this new book by Professor John S. Tregoning he gives you the tips and tricks to get you as close to living ...