It’s also an opportunity for Wang, a wildly gifted writer, to explore the upside and downside of education, marriage and ...

Wall Street firms buying or developing single-family homes are betting billions of dollars on people like Adrianne Harlow. The 45-year-old women’s basketball coach was moving from Alabama to ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review ... with a younger man who works at a rental-car agency. In 1970s Philadelphia ...

Our analysis found you could save 13.4% on average by booking last minute. But should you really procrastinate? Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when ...

A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages. By Ed Simon Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration ...

Coll’s book presents Hussein as a human being, not a caricature. Relying in part on newly translated Iraqi documents, it reexamines the mutually reinforcing delusions of the Iraqi leader and ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

(Book World review.) Everett’s sly response to “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” both honors and interrogates Mark Twain’s classic, along with the nation that reveres it. Told from the ...

Renting a car for your next trip doesn’t have to break the bank if you understand the key pricing factors involved. Rental rates fluctuate daily based on variables like vehicle type, location, trip ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s darkest secrets, Truman Capote and his swans, Karen Read, and more of the stories that most captivated readers this year. Showrunner Alison Schapker explains how the sci ...

We asked our writers what books moved them the most, and they had plenty of suggestions. After a lot of back and forth, and a really hard time narrowing down the selections, we picked ten favorites.

Two chief executive officers recommended Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, by Morgan Housel, which helps the reader understand fundamentals of human behavior—which remain the same ...