METABLOKS / LITERATURE

Last hour

NYT Books and Literature

Which Book Should You Read to Finish Summer? Take the Quiz.

We picked out 32 books that are perfect for the end of the season. Take our quiz to find out which one is right for you.

1 hour ago

NYT Books and Literature

Which Book Should You Read to Finish Summer? Take the Quiz.

Today

NYT Books and Literature

I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything.

Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.

3 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything.

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Dèy,’ by Edwidge Danticat

In Edwidge Danticat’s new novel, “Dèy,” a Haitian American mother in Miami experiences the numbing aftershocks of a random act of violence.

7 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Dèy,’ by Edwidge Danticat

Older

NYT Books and Literature

Edwidge Danticat Explores the “Precarity of Life” in Her New Novel

A terrifying personal experience inspired Edwidge Danticat’s fifth novel, which is set in Miami and Brooklyn, but with Haiti always in mind.

17 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Edwidge Danticat Explores the “Precarity of Life” in Her New Novel

NYT Books and Literature

What Makes a Killer Thriller? We Asked Tana French.

Our list of the 50 best thrillers of the century. Plus a conversation with the author Tana French.

1 day ago

NYT Books and Literature

What Makes a Killer Thriller? We Asked Tana French.