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 ...

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Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II. By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other ...

‘The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia and peacetime rot.

G.N. Devy, a prominent Indian intellectual, focuses on preserving endangered languages, challenging linguistic diversity ...

November 25, 2024 • Samantha Harvey's novel "Orbital," which won this year's prestigious Booker Prize, is nearly plotless. But Harvey's writing shimmers as she describes daily life on the ...

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In Anita Desai’s elusive novella, “Rosarita,” the main character, a woman from India named Bonita, learns she can’t even be sure of her mother’s name.

In the short stories of Erika Krouse’s ‘Save Me, Stranger,’ attempts to help lead to conflict and a powerful, at times uncomfortable, moral ambiguity.

Majumdar writes of the shift in English lite, from criticism as a means of aesthetic education to reading as “a means of cultural diagnosis.” ...