Ahead of the publication of “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” the horror novelist spends a weekend home in Charleston.

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Straus and Giroux This strategy runs counter to the way most publishers have released books for decades — first in hardcover, the most profitable format, then in paperback a year or so later.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...

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When I taught high-school English, I loved planning out the syllabus, book by book. Once chosen, one novel might lead naturally to another; certain titles seemed to go with certain seasons.

(Laura Battle, FT) "Funny, tender and deeply moving... [it] brought me more pleasure than any other book this year." (Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times) The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke ...

I’m sure many of you did the same. A good book is escapist. But at its strongest, reading is an utterly transformative act – the lessons we learn, the characters we meet and the perspectives ...

Part sci-fi and part coming-of-age, the book weaves their storylines together to paint a modern portrait of what it means to fulfill the American Dream. Short-story writer Kelly Link weaves a ...

This year’s top titles range from an alphabet book of quirky tunes to an authentic portrait of our nation Megan Gambino Senior Editor When I first started compiling this year-end book list ...