From a rollicking crypto investigation to an unexpectedly moving novel about poetry-spouting AI, these are the best books we read in 2023. Appropriate, then, that this was a year for unwieldy, ...

Biographies, handbooks, histories, forecasts and memoirs highlight some of the best higher education books of 2023. Here are my choices for top titles. Michael T. Benson’s Daniel Coit Gilman and the ...

For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...

Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. Once a year, the Amazon books editorial team gathers in Seattle for a literary battle royale. They assemble ...

On the cusp of the new year, many of us feel the urge to look backward and to take the measure of the twelve previous months. Lists of the best books of the year abound because in addition to ...

H appy New Year, dear readers of The Review! As we do each year, we convened a group of our contributors — a dozen, this time around — and asked them which works of scholarship surprised, challenged, ...

Deadly Quiet City. By Murong Xuecun. New Press; 336 pages; $27.99. Hardie Grant; £14.99 In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, a celebrated Chinese writer interviewed people in Wuhan about their ...

We have once again come to the end of another great year for horror fiction. It seems like every year has been great for the genre lately, but even by those standards 2023 launched like a rocket and ...

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard’s memoir, and Wade Guyton’s intelligent rereading of Manet. Share full article Clockwise from top left: ...

These books have become Gamer Canon for good reason, but every year we get a new crop of great game books that, for whatever reason, don’t get the attention they deserve. So this year, with the ...

These books take a deep look at our food systems and why we eat and cook the way that we do. Korsha Wilson is a New York City-based food writer who covers food, restaurants, media, and culture for ...

It’s often said that travel is all about the journey, whether it’s planning a remote island holiday or setting out on the adventure of a lifetime across the Arctic Ocean. But it can be almost as ...