When I tell people I do a lot of books coverage at KCM, I inevitably get hit with the dreaded question "What’s the best book you’ve read lately?" I say “dreaded” because when I get put on the spot ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Georgina Godwin has spent more than two decades building one of the most distinctive presences in London literary life—not as a writer, but ...

Ann Godoff, the founder, president and Editor-in-Chief of Penguin Press, whose stable of authors included E.L. Doctorow, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michael Pollan, Tom Brokaw, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, ...

At the age of 30, I became an editor. On my first day, while I was at lunch, a colleague tossed a photocopy of an essay onto my office chair, with a passage underlined. She’d highlighted a quote from ...

Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss sits down with David Ariosto to discuss his new book, “Open Space.” David talks about how some of the themes of the book — China, the moon and the booming ...

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 ...

A female ichneumonid wasp, Megarhyssa perlata, drills into a tree to insert eggs on wood-boring beetle larvae hidden deep inside. (Kees Zwakhals Photo) Scott Shaw, a University of Wyoming entomology ...

A former Vogue editor is set to deliver a novel that could rival “The Devil Wears Prada” as the ultimate insider’s look at Condé Nast and the fashion world, according to Page Six. Ex-editor, Filipa ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Susie Dent's debut novel, "Guilty by Definition" (‎Sourcebooks Landmark), introduces a dictionary editor at Oxford who ...