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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kristian Wilson Colyard grew up weird in a one-caution-light town in the Appalachian foothills. She now lives in an old textile city with...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Ocean Vuong Gets the...

Fiction | NonfictionWe’re more than a third of the way through 2025 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.For more than 20 years, A.O. Scott, who was until recently a co-chief film critic for The New York Times,...

THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS, by Ocean VuongWe first meet the hero of Ocean Vuong’s second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” as we did George Bailey in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”: on the edge of a bridge, contemplating...

Ian Kumekawa’s new book, “Empty Vessel,” promises in its subtitle to tell “the story of the global economy in one barge.” Along those lines, you could think of our recommended books this week as the story of the global...

TEQUILA WARS: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico, by Ted GenowaysAs far as personal branding goes, getting name-checked in multiple chart-topping singles isn’t a bad strategy. To quote just one, Shelly West’s 1983 country-radio...

When I landed in Gaza to assess the needs after the bombings. When I went into Ukraine with my team, into hospitals, onto destroyed roads. Every crisis pushes you out of comfort and into humanity.What are the best books...

For the mom who likes dishy family sagasVantage Point, by Sara SligarAn unthinkably rich brother and sister — heirs to a steel fortune — are haunted by a family curse and by compromising videotapes (possibly faked) that upend the...

ETERNAL SUMMER, by Franziska Gänsler; translated by Imogen TaylorWhen Ivan Turgenev left Paris for Baden-Baden, the German spa town famed for its casinos, vineyards and salubrious air, he urged his friend Gustave Flaubert to come visit. “There are trees...