Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

Though it may offer a tidy set of templates and page type options, Shutterfly’s photo book tool is often clunky, prone to glitches and overly restrictive. And even though its prices are pretty much in ...

The 'father of group therapy, Irvin D Yalom, decides to move to a different model, as explained in Hour of the Heart.

An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...

A show at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art highlights the photographer’s detailed, compassionate and mysterious pictures of ...

This book provides a brief insight into the history and workings of the Prairie Tanks of the Great Western Railway ...

For an Australian who lives in Massachusetts, author Geraldine Brooks has a remarkable ability to chronicle the American ...

Featuring 296 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Alafair Burke, Pico Iyer, Davis Pinkney, and Lily Braun-Arnold; and more One ...

Children’s book author Peter Brown’s beloved mechanized humanoid starred in a blockbuster animated film earlier this year ...

Jeffrey Edward Green, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God, discusses Dylan’s fraught relationship with political activism, Christianity, and self-mythology.

People have profoundly altered the planet’s soundscape. It’s time to quieten down so that other species can thrive.