So, a novel? A memoir? A chapbook? This is a book of poetry, with a plain tomato soup of a story within it. A can of Campbell’s can be just the thing on a cold day. But The Copywriter is not a ...

This month, pile your nightstand with Mario Vargas Llosa’s swan song, biographies on Chuck Feeney and the Murdochs, and a new ...

Five minutes before showtime, I peered past the podium to find the room overflowing with chairs. Empty chairs. This was in ...

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Embers Adrift now has vanity pets, as part of the latest update. Stormhaven Studios added pets, a new character customization option, optimizations for improved performance, and a new cosmetics layer.

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

Buckeye is an historical novel set, as its title indicates, in Ohio. Stretching from pre-World War II to the close of the 20th century, the story focuses on two married couples whose lives intersect.

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica. For two and a half years, an Argo ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul One book ...

November 2016. Cameras capture the most advanced destroyer in history, USS Zumwalt, stuck in the Panama Canal. Built for $4.4 billion, designed to be invisible on radar, the super-destroyer now drifts ...

Nearly everything is easily accessible through your phone — especially photos. So, there’s a certain charm to having a physical keepsake of your favorite moments. One of my favorite ways to ...