Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already learned.

Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, Ethan Hawke and Ada Limón.

Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, Ethan Hawke and Ada Limón.

The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

Nan Shepherd’s meditative book on the great outdoors is an inspiring guide to stepping away from comforts and routine.

Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here’s where...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves?

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures.

“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness.

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths.

Why the newly released documents won’t put out the fire.

“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books.

Before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Lee had written short stories in which she explored some of its themes and characters.

In places like Mingo County, W.Va., where working-age people are dying at record rates, a nurse learns what it takes to make America healthy.

Our columnist recommends books featuring centuries of L.G.B.T.Q. love stories that defy tragedy, laugh in the face of shame and lean into unabashed joy.

A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in New York features a range of items — transistor radios, lanterns, cigarette lighters and more — designed to look like books.

In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin.

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Tell us a few things about what you like, and we’ll give you a spot-on recommendation.

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm.

Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

These vintage books introduce the archetypes, settings and lavishly bonkers sensibility that are the hallmarks of great romance.

Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, “Notes to John.” They provide a raw account of her life, her work and her complex relationship with her dau...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.

Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry.

In a new book, two photographers memorialize the bird that charmed New York City and the world.

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift's music. Can you match the poem to the song?

The first-ever screen adaptation will be released this week — a feat even the author didn’t think possible. We traveled to the set in Colombia to see how it was done.

A sketchbook collection, a Joycean comedy and a brutal self-examination gave us a lot to look at.

Here are the novels our columnist loved most.

Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.