A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate’s work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results. By Wesley Morris In “Leaving Home,” the writer and ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag ...

2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder ...

FSG lands Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s take on the far right’s apocalyptic thinking, and Celadon nets a behind-the-scenes look at Gilmore Girls from its creator and star.