In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Emily Brontë’s Gothic story of love and revenge. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book Review and the host of the Book Review ...

Gaming with Kev runs, hides, and fights to escape alien invaders threatening the world in Roblox. Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...

“Rebecca Newberger Goldstein isn’t the first philosopher to argue that we are driven by the quest to justify our existence,” said John Kaag in The Atlantic. But in her stirring new book, the ...

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Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse. The debut novel from Van Jensen, a veteran comic-book writer, develops this unusual premise in a surprisingly ...

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...

Hail to the King, baby!

Leo takes a look at the monster DeepCool QuadStellar case - we don't think we have ever seen anything like it. Its big, has loads of room for hard drives and video cards, but its also heavy, big and ...

The MCU has had several cool aliens. The Skrulls, the Chitauri, the Abilisk, they all have cool designs and either sharp teeth or interesting powers. But the title of coolest MCU alien is the Flerkens ...