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 ...

Roten explains, “The University of Dayton’s landmark chapel featured on the ‘Mirror of Hope’ mirrors time and eternity, their unity and presence.” The Tower of Babel On the left side and the next ...

It is something of a surprise, then, to see the Berlin-based philosopher moving into a more positive gear with the latest of his books to be translated into English: a brief sermon on the benefits of ...

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 ...

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Of course, there are other things we hope for in life as well ... Often, we can nudge children in that direction through reading books that address this in one way or another, such as the books ...

But the best travel books can also inspire journeys ... At the same time, she manages to offer hope. This is an essential read for travelers—or anyone—worried about climate change.

Did you know ants once shared the planet with dinosaurs like the T-Rex and the Velociraptor? Or that termites cultivate food gardens of fungi within their large, intricately constructed mounds? And ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.