Crafting The New York Times Book Review’s annual list involves arguments, politicking and, every once in a while, a rare consensus.

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village ...

Some of us feel exhausted, some of us feel energized.” The Book Review looks back on the year’s biggest stories and trends in ...

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 ...

History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...