Books
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A policeman returns to the neighborhood he escaped
T. Geronimo Johnson’s new novel examines race, loyalty and power through one Atlanta officer.
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The men who decided to build a new intelligence
Kevin Roose’s history of the AI race traces the ambitions, rivalries and choices behind a technological upheaval.
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Min Jin Lee follows a Korean family across three countries
American Hagwon finds an epic in the long struggle to regain a place in the middle class.
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The friendship that could not survive a police call
Natalie Baszile puts the limits of good intentions at the center of a new family novel.
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When forgiveness arrives in the mail
Imbolo Mbue’s new novel asks whether a man can meet the woman responsible for his wife’s death.
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Yiyun Li follows the music that history nearly forgot
Music Against the Night brings John Field and Adelaide Percheron into an ambitious historical novel.
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A bad review becomes a love story in New York’s literary world
Bad Words imagines what happens when a novelist and his critic become an online spectacle.
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Barbara Kingsolver lets the piano keep the score
After Demon Copperhead, Partita turns toward love, regret and a former pianist’s divided life.
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Bonnie Garmus returns to the peculiar kingdom of New York publishing
Peck & Peck turns a Manhattan poetry magazine into the setting for a new novel.
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The National Book Awards are coming home to Manhattan
The 2026 finalists place migration, memory and family at the center of American letters.
