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A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.

Emmanuel Carrère’s latest book combines a nuanced portrait of his formidable mother with a meditation on the fraught nature of truth.

In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.

With its bracing studies of fiction’s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.

Penny Hardy photographed the restaurant sheds that cropped up across the city in 2020. Only a fraction of them remain today.

Alexander Maksik’s new novel explores the bonds and strains of a father-daughter relationship amid a developing crisis.

In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.

Very little is clear in M. John Harrison’s Booker-nominated novel “The End of Everything,” except that nothing is as it seems.

In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt.