Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

John Lennon’s observation that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus earned him full immersion in fire and brimstone, though he might have also been accused of understatement. Timothy Leary, the ...

I happened to be in Mexico City on the night of July 1, 2018, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”) was elected Mexico’s president in a landslide. I was there to help make a documentary that had ...

In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it. A 17th-century depiction of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán, the capital ...

Paul McCartney is finally opening up one of the most fascinating chapters of his life. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run is the new book on McCartney in the 1970s — how he started over and found ...

Paul McCartney always knew The Beatles wouldn’t be his only legacy. In 1970, a month before the band’s swan song, “Let It Be,” he dropped the first nugget of a five decade (and counting) continuation ...

The books that moved and delighted us, sparked conversations, and opened our minds All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert The Antidote by Karen Russell ...

During the five years I worked as an environmental-studies professor at a progressive private college, I undertook a small, semesterly rebellion: I had students read “Confessions of a Recovering ...

Ray Di Pietro walked up to the life-size photograph hanging on the wall of the Frist Art Museum. He paused, taking in the two musicians captured in the photo. He then removed his glasses to wipe away ...

Once upon a time—actually about two years ago—I was asked to work on the Catwalk book about Jean Paul Gaultier. Upon looking at an Excel sheet that listed all of Gaultier’s womenswear collections ...

And now, not only was the World’s Favorite Band no more, but it also seemed to be Paul’s fault, as it was him suing the other three to dissolve the organization. Never mind that those three had all ...

Rep. Kaohly Her celebrates with supporters after winning the St. Paul Mayoral Race at her election night watch party at Sweeney’s Saloon on Wednesday in St. Paul.