T​he octogenarian is on her 50th short-story collection and 15th year as an X power user.

Her latest, Whistler, is full of unusually decent people. But it still made me tear up.

Clean, precise prose is now a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price.

Andrew Martin’s funny but overly earnest Down Time is the latest entry in this genre.

A close study of Toni Morrison, a Richard Hell reissue, and a novel about a woman trying to live without love.

New York’s newsletter about what the literati are really thinking is entering a new chapter.

The songwriter’s unusual tell-all skips the gossip, revealing a life in music as the solution, not the plot.

From congestion pricing to Cameron Winter.

Including a debut about an aging movie star, a midlife road-trip novel, and a new novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk.

The stand-up comedian read 51 books this year. Here are his favorites.

Even in a fractured media landscape, these books held our attention. The best books of 2025 include Thomas Pynchon’s first novel in 12 years, a geopolitical thriller by Susan Choi, and Keith McNally’s memoir.

New York Magazine’s picks for what to see, hear, watch, and read from November 19 to December 3: Chloe Zhao’s heartbreaking ‘Hamnet’ adaptation, Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’ docuseries, and the final season of ‘Stranger Things.’

Thomas Pynchon’s account of rising fascism, a millennial cheating novel, and a memoir from a James Beard winner.

A Patricia Lockwood novel, an unsparing memoir from Arundhati Roy, and self-described “nepito baby” Zosia Mamet’s essay collection.

Kate Riley joined a Christian commune to figure out how to live well. What she found was more complicated.

She joined a religious group to figure out how to live well. What she found was more complicated.

It has become the premier destination for literary types’ unpublished musings.

In Hilary Plum’s State Champ, a charismatic screwup stages a hunger strike after an abortion doctor is sent to prison.

A grumpy bookshop employee’s musings, an investigation of parenthood in the digital age, and an essential history of OpenAI.

May new book release recommendations include a new Ocean Vuong novel, an essential history of OpenAI, and Amanda Hess’s investigation of parenthood in the digital age.

The city’s big little indie-bookstore chain is betting on the idea that readers want something more than the standard launch party.

McNally Jackson is starting a twice-yearly festival including talks, a print zine, and a phone-free closing party (with ‘a secret lineup’). ‘There will be events related to the festival at least two or three nights a week,’ Sarah McNally says.