Arts

LONDON — Organizers of Art Basel, the centerpiece of the European art market calendar, have canceled the show in Basel, Switzerland, in September because of ongoing health and safety concerns...

Lauren Wolk’s poetic new novel, ECHO MOUNTAIN (Dutton, 368 pp., $17.99; ages 10 and up), starts with a litter of puppies. One of them appears to be dead, and 12-year-old...

Everybody feels like a freak in middle school. As the father of two teenagers who have recently emerged from puberty, I can tell you that children are freaks in middle...

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M ore than 15 years have passed since the late Philip Roth published his dystopian semi-autobiographical novel, The Plot Against America. Only now has Roth’s powerful speculative...

As surely as we turn ahead the clocks in March, in late May thousands in the publishing industry — authors, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians and others — put on their...

Though she began writing at age 7, Grace Edwards waited until she was 55 to publish her first novel. That book, “In the Shadow of the Peacock,” was a lush...

As protests around the country against racism and police violence extend well into their second week, demand for books about race and anti-racism has surged. As of this writing, almost...

Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen A.O. Scott, The Times’s co-chief film critic, is (temporarily) wearing a different hat, writing a series of pieces for the...

PARIS — Guy Bedos, who drew inspiration from Lenny Bruce in becoming one of France’s most popular and bitingly satirical comics in a 60-year career that took him from nightclubs...

Robert Ford Jr., who as a journalist in the late 1970s was an early chronicler of the newly emerging hip-hop scene, and who then became a producer and mentor to...