The announcement by their U.S. publisher, Flatiron Books, came after days of frantic speculation by their fervent fans.

The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history read “The Hill We Climb,” which she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen,” she says.

A self-described “picture writer,” he wrote and illustrated more than 70 books for young children, selling more than 170 million copies.

In “Trust,” the wunderkind politician underscores the importance of what he calls “overlapping circles of belonging.”

Let books entertain you, offer escape and stretch your horizons this season.

In “What’s Your Pronoun?” Dennis Baron argues that the language’s lack of a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun has dogged writers and speakers since at least the Middle Ages.

Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.

The bookstore chain’s future was the subject of speculation for months before the hedge fund said it would buy it for $638 million.

Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war.

“On the House” is an anecdote-rich memoir by the former speaker of the House that fails to give readers the whole picture.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review

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The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.

In his new memoir, the longtime “Jeopardy!” host delivers clues and facts about himself, and looks back on his life as he struggles with advanced pancreatic cancer.

In “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” Imani Perry straddles genres to find her own — and our — South.

Exhibits at the house where the writer lived in the early 1800s are being updated to add historical context. Not everyone is thrilled.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review

In “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and dozens more novels and screenplays, he offered unromantic depictions of a long mythologized region.

In “A World Without Work,” the economist Daniel Susskind argues that, unlike during past technological shifts, machines really are becoming smart enough to take over our jobs.

“Bag Man” reports on who knew what and when about Agnew’s years of corruption.

From Bertolt Brecht to Vu Tran, a sampling of major contributions to American literature by those who were forced to leave their own countries.

A new run of “Forever” stamps will feature scenes from Ezra Jack Keats’s classic children’s tale.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist explains how Woolf turned an ordinary day in an ordinary life into a masterpiece.

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Her funny stories about Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the sisters Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and a motorcycling mouse named Ralph never talked down to readers.

A wave of deaths and retirements prompted publishers to name new leaders. Now the industry is in a rare moment of transformation that promises to influence the books put out into the world.

To celebrate the Book Review’s 125th anniversary, we’re dipping into the archives to revisit our most thrilling, memorable and thought-provoking coverage.

Cartoonist Grant Snider illustrates what to expect during the writing process.

She died above the bookstore, founded in 1840, where she had worked since the waning months of World War II. She locked it up for the last time in December.

Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review

Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Dive in! Here are 75 of the latest and greatest books to keep you company as temperatures climb and days grow long.

“It’s awkward because the track record for the ownership here is not great,” one customer said. “But it’s also an institution. My parents shopped here.”

Sixteen writers, many of them African-American women, share what it’s been like to witness Michelle Obama in the White House, in a new collection edited by Veronica Chambers.

Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.

Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native American and First Nations authors are reshaping its otherworldly (but still often Eurocentric) worlds.

This new survey, by Stuart Kells, a rare-books expert, is an absorbing account of the complicated role book collections have played in our public and private lives.

This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

The star and creator of the musical “Hamilton” says “Things Fall Apart” was his favorite book to teach at Hunter College High School: “The kids walk out of the classroom as different people.”

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In “The End of Everything,” the theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack takes a look at the ultimate doom and destruction of our universe. It’s not pretty.

In “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” and “Why Not Me?”, Ms. Kaling offers guidance to young women.

Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.

Her creation Blanche White was probably the first fictional black maid to solve a murder while working for a wealthy white family.

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Mo Willems, Gene Luen Yang, Amie Kaufman and other authors for young readers are reading their work online and offering drawing tutorials, to help fill our strange new hours.

In his fourth memoir, “No Time Like the Future,” the actor and activist opens up about his newfound, uniquely upbeat brand of pessimism.

Writers cast light on other countries’ shadows: from a sinister factory in Japan to a secret-filled Yugoslav town to a prisonlike kitchen in the south of India.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist explains how Woolf turned an ordinary day in an ordinary life into a masterpiece.

The judges rebelled against the literary prize’s rules and awarded it to “The Testaments” and “Girl, Woman, Other.”

The novel, which follows four young people in Ireland, is part of a two-book deal for the best-selling author of “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends.”

ViacomCBS agreed to sell the 96-year-old company in a deal that potentially creates a megapublisher.

Gorman’s reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” on Wednesday combined the personal and political.

The government’s case blocked the merger of two of the United States’ largest publishers and reflected a more aggressive approach to curbing consolidation. It was closely watched by the publishing...

The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

Farrow writes that NBC tried to shut down his reporting about sexual assault and harassment allegations against the Hollywood producer.