Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Guidebooks can be wonderful resources for helping travelers navigate destinations. But the best travel books can also inspire journeys. Fiction or nonfiction, there’s no shortage of books with a ...

Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...

our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The gulf between the living and the dead defines humanity. Yet artists and writers have always attempted to reach across the ...

What the shepherd had chanced upon were the Dead Sea Scrolls, more than 800 documents of animal skin and papyrus, stored in clay jars for safe keeping. Among the texts are fragments of every book of ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that life on earth was only part of an eternal journey that ended not in death, but in eternal joy in the afterlife ...

Arielli ends with a cry for action to save this singular place: before it’s not just dead, but gone. Violet Moller is the author of books including Inside the Stargazer’s Palace. The Dead Sea ...

A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend disappear — and then she turns up dead. Rusty must step up to defend the boy, who finds h ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which ...

Catching Charli XCX at Barclays, flexing in the front row at Fashion Week in Paris, or slipping down to Rio for Carnival? Don ...

This is the scariest book I have ever read in my entire life - because it is about my death. Dr Matt Morgan, a top consultant in an intensive care unit, tells us that out of any 100 people who ...