Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our critic on four excellent new novels. By Alida Becker In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the ...

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2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder ...

January 7, 2026 • Baker & Taylor is one of very few companies that handle book distribution for libraries — getting books from publishers into borrowers hands. But a few months ago, the company ...

Prepare to go deeper into the stories that matter. This new audio podcast is designed to extend the literary experience of our best-selling titles, creating a deep-dive destination for listeners eager ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated writers’ ...

An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

January 27, 2026 • Writer Jason Zengerle says Carlson had the foresight to see Trump's potential in 2015. Now he's someone the president "definitely listens to." Zengerle's new book is Hated by All ...