Martin Parr had never been to war, but he had witnessed combat—on aisle three. “I went to the local supermarket because, to me, that was the front line,” he writes in “Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...

Utah author Julie DeForest just launched her new book The Lazy Gnomes | Sneaky Travels Far & Wide, the third book in this series. The story reveals the hilarious and heartwarming ways the gnomes make ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. This month, pile your nightstand with a sizzling novel about what lurks ...

A small town bookstore in Michigan took a novel approach to moving. About 300 residents in the small Michigan city of Chelsea formed a “book brigade” to help move Serendipity Books to a new storefront ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni came to the defense of wide receiver A.J. Brown over criticism toward him for reading a book on the sideline during Sunday’s playoff game. Brown was seen ...

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni “fully” encourages star receiver A.J. Brown to enrich his mind during a game. Two days after Brown went viral for reading Jim Muphy’s “Inner Excellence” on the bench during ...

When I first started compiling this year-end book list, my daughters were 3 years and just 6 months old, and my main duties were feeding and chasing them around. But now that they are 10 and 7, I have ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Karan Singh Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Here they are — the 10 Best Books of ...