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He was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care…

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.Topping our list of recommendations this week is an anthology…

Books by Paul Harding, Jonathan Escoffery and Chetna Maroo are among six titles nominated for the prestigious literary award.Paul Murray’s…

In C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” a chef finds herself in an elite community for the superrich…

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back…

Her novels and nonfiction provided alternatives to the Western- and male-centric views of modern India offered by writers like E.M.…

Two years into a surge in book banning efforts across the country, restrictions that were largely happening in school libraries,…

The veteran columnist and author has covered athletic endeavors for so long, he’s witnessed a revolution.Sportswriting has changed since Joe…

Ariana Reines’s poem “CAIN” travels in couplets. Each line is like one foot, then another, falling onto the pavement of…

Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” compares the labor struggles of the Industrial Revolution to today’s abusive gig economy.BLOOD IN…