Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Summer

With summer on its way out, our book-boosting former president shares his highlights of the season. Here's what we thought of them in our advance reviews.

10 Books by Women in Translation

To celebrate Women in Translation month, we've compiled our reviews of noteworthy fiction and nonfiction titles by women writers recently published in English.

Writers Talking Writers: Téa Obreht on Daphne du Maurier and Kevin Young on Lucille Clifton

The novelist and poet discuss the uncanny, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and the power of poetry to speak for a community.

Writers Talking Writers: Elif Shafak on José Saramago and Mathias Énard on Marcel Proust

Writers Talking Writers: Jess Walter on Charles Portis and Jonathan Lethem on James Salter

The National Book Award finalist talks about Portis’s appeal as the “patron saint of journalists who become novelists” and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner discusses Salter’s “breathtaking painterliness.”

5 New Kitchen Memoirs for Fans of The Bear

To celebrate the return of FX’s nerve-shredding culinary dramedy, we highlight five books that share its spirit.

Celebrating the Later Work of Edmund White

The late author’s long and prolific career was capped by a remarkable late-career run of four excellent books in the past five years.

10 New Books for Father’s Day

In which we highlight fiction and nonfiction that’s a little off the beaten path, where many dads yearn to go.

10 New Books to Read This AAPI Heritage Month

From a graphic semi-memoir to the latest from Ocean Vuong, we're rounding up some of our favorite spring books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors.

Writers Talking Writers: Madeleine Thien on Y-Dang Troeung

The Giller Prize–⁠winning novelist reflects on the late memoirist and scholar's ambitious work about the history of violence in Cambodia and its resonance with current events.