Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your January reading list. Each of us approaches a new year with a combination of worry and hope.

A book may not strike you as the most original gift, but introducing someone to a great work of fiction could transform their life. I learned this first-hand. After publishing five business books ...

There are plenty of heavy fiction hitters coming our way with novels from the likes of Han Kang and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, plus some already-hyped debuts from Australian authors. Non-fiction ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

Should you succumb to this awful temptation, there would, at least, be a wealth of brilliant television to fill your days, as some hotly anticipated science fiction and science-focused TV series ...

Back then, the biggest trend in non-fiction was “misery lit”, as readers young and old binged on stories of abuse. We were initiated into this bleak era by the viral 1995 publication of A ...

Unread fiction goes to one section of the bookshelves, nonfiction to another ... I did the unthinkable to a grade-grubbing rule follower like myself and resorted to the CliffsNotes.

Television hasn’t always been kind to science fiction, with smaller budgets to throw at special effects and epic, universe-spanning narratives getting cancelled before their time. But despite ...

We can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction,” TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said in a statement. The popular video-sharing platform is bracing for a new law, set to take effect on Jan ...

"Playground," by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Powers, is a brilliant novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the Earth's oceans. The story involves a computer genius, a ...