As 2024 winds down, this week’s Title Search puzzle celebrates fiction that appeared on the New York Times best-seller list at some point this year. The titles of 10 such books are hidden below ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

In 1994, the Irish detective Julia Harte gets assigned to a serial killer case that eats away at her until she retires and ...

These include Jacquelyne Jackson, the pioneering Black sociologist, and Maggie Kuhn, the charismatic founder of the advocacy ...

A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit’s schools and the ...

Molly recommends Annie Ernaux’s photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist’s study of the moments when conflict ...

In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and ...

Rebecca Kauffman’s fifth novel, “I’ll Come to You,” is a “Corrections”-esque tale of one clan’s dysfunctions and joys in ...

Jon Klassen, a Caldecott medalist, is the author-illustrator of the picture books “I Want My Hat Back,” “This Is Not My Hat” ...

Reading alone is a deeply enjoyable activity. But being read to has its own irreplaceable allure. The Harvard Sentences are ...

The French writer Simone Weil wrote that attention “is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” How you see people ...

Bloom took on self-published authors like her who already had an online fan base and helped them distribute their books, turning them into mainstream best ... grew by nearly 10 percent, twice ...