Summer Reading Contest | What Interested You Most in The Times This Week?
Our Summer Reading Contest begins! This week our judges are a team from Random House Kids, and the winners will be announced on July 1.
5 Favored Topics
Books, Novels, Reading Lists, Summer Reading...
3 Preferred sources
Bookforum, New York Review of Books, Poets &...
At 52, Not Too Old for a Debut Novel
A writer comes to realize he is too old to follow anyone else’s rules and can express his true nature.
The Glory and Brutality of a Purebred Texan Clan
“The Son” spans 200 years, six generations and a great many downfalls in one proudly purebred American family, the McCulloughs of ...
Relative Unknown Chosen to Direct ‘Fifty Shades’
Sam Taylor-Johnson will direct the film adaptation of the best-selling erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
Whatever genre I’m currently committed to becomes my favorite.
Self-Publishing Star Amanda Hocking Sells Next Series to St. Martin’s
Ms. Hocking had sold more than a million copies of her novels before St. Martin’s Press published her “Watersong” series.
Book Review Podcast: Annual Summer Reading Issue
Peter Lattman on Jimmy Connors, Anthony Gottlieb on Jewish humor, and more.
Riding Waves of Mystery and Adventure
Beach reading, including Stephen King’s “Joyland,” Kevin Kwan’s “Crazy Rich Asians” and Rebecca Lee’s short-story collection ...
Twin Seers, Conflicted and Cocky
“Sisterland,” a new novel from Curtis Sittenfeld, centers on identical twin sisters with psychic powers who have chosen contrasting ...
Bound for the Hamptons
The Book Review’s first use of “beach read,” Tao Lin’s new novel and more.