New Yorker staff writer Parul Sehgal will return to the New York Times as a critic-at-large on December 23, where she will ...

Far from being the enemy of rational thought, emotions are actually valuable “guides through life’s most consequential moments,” according to this illuminating guide. Neuroscientist Kross ...

In his ho-hum latest, Porter (the Paul Samson series) strands a winning protagonist in a saggy spy story. MI5 undercover agent Slim Parsons has been accused by her handlers of recklessness and ...

A decades-long quest for a stash of gold buried in the Sierra Nevada sets the stage for this heart-pounding historical from Connealy (Into the Sunset). It’s 1874 when handsome Brody MacKenzie ...

Clare, the undead fox of Deadwood Forest, is cast as a monster by the local children who gather each Halloween around the forest’s edge to chant about how he “waits to feast/ On little bones.” ...

Former pharmacist and debut author Jane Yang’s new sweeping historical novel, The Lotus Shoes (Park Row Books, Jan. 2025), is ...

Bob the Drag Queen, a former winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, debuts with a vivacious narrative that sees Harriet Tubman magically brought back to life. Revived in the present day along with a ...

Bestseller Murakami (Killing Commendatore) unspools an intoxicating fantasy of a parallel world. The unnamed middle-aged narrator recounts how, at 17, he fell in love with a 16-year-old girl who ...