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 published ...

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in ...

“Paul Celan’s poems reach us, but we miss them,” wrote the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, giving succinct expression to the ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp ...

In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets ... For a celebratory sociopolitical history of one of New York’s most storied boroughs, these tonal opposites of bursting type and sober ...

By Benjamin Markovits Benjamin Markovits’s new novel, “The Rest of Our Lives,” will be published in March. When you purchase an independently reviewed book ... The New York Times of the ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...