One-Minute Book Reviews

I stopped watching true-crime shows on TV when they became too formulaic: all that eerie music, that ominous foreshadowing, that insurance bought just before the victim died.

Is there an author you once enjoyed but can no longer read?

I admire Jalen Hurts a lot as an athlete.

Have you ever read the print or digital edition of the New York Times Book Review wondered, “Why can’t I find anything I want to to read here?

A lot of pundits and late-night comedians have weighed in on Donald Trump’s Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.

I live just 77 miles south of Harper Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, so of course I had to pick up her new The Land of Sweet Forever, just published posthumously with an introduction by Casey Cep.

I used to think we could never have too many literary prizes.

Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path has become the latest memoir tainted by scandal after a British newspaper alleged that the author may have made up, distorted, or embellished parts of her bestselling book-turned-movie.

You might think I’m the ideal listener for the podcast of New York Times Book Review Book Club.

Sophie Elmhirst’s A Marriage at Sea is turning out to be one of the big nonfiction books of the summer, and with good reason.

What happens when a liberal-media analyst arrives in a redder-than-red state to promote a book?

You might think there’s no drawback to the $40 million that Simon & Schuster recently agreed to pay for five books by Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of the No. 1 fiction bestseller, Atmosphere.

It would be an exaggeration to say that Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a story everybody has read but nobody really understands.

Critics and fans have deplored the posthumous publication of Joan Didion’s new Notes to John, a collection of jottings on her psychotherapy sessions, which she didn’t authorize.

Memoirs of life with an animal have boomed ever since John Grogan wrote in Marley & Me about an over-the-top dog that chewed furniture and ate part of his wife’s pregnancy test.