When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our ...

Olivia Waite, the Book Review’s romance fiction columnist, writes queer and historical romance, fantasy and critical essays ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

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For decades, there was one path to becoming a successful African writer: Getting a book deal in the publishing meccas of New York ... for The Times, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He covers a broad ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...

By The New York Times Books Staff These vintage books introduce the archetypes, settings and lavishly bonkers sensibility that are the hallmarks of great romance. By Olivia Waite Two new books ...

In her fifth memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan writes about her 36-year marriage, her adult children and why she ...