Book Review

This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here’s how the latest iteration came to be.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.

By Matthew Burgess

Mac Barnett, the national ambassador for young people’s literature published a manifesto aimed at adults. Then came the blowback.

By Elisabeth Egan

Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year’s prize.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

By Alexandra Alter

The best-selling author Rachel Gillig recommends books that bring the haunted hallmarks of Gothic fiction into enchanted settings.

By Rachel Gillig

Artificial intelligence has made pirated audiobooks faster to make and harder to detect. Our reporter Alexandra Alter tells us about the latest threat to the publishing industry.

By Alexandra Alter, Léo Hamelin and Laura Salaberry

A respected literary magazine has published an award-winning short story many readers believe to be generated by artificial intelligence. Experts aren’t all so sure.

By Valeriya Safronova

Ali Smith’s new novel, “Glyph,” dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.

By Megan O’Grady