“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system. By Dwight Garner Novels by Colson Whitehead and Daniel Mason, the ...

Sarah Weinman on “Heather,” by Caitlin Mullen, and three more new books. By Sarah Weinman Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. In her biography of the novelist ...

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 Price, is an enthusiastic go-getter with a strong ...

The book club was founded in 2017 and centers books with women-led narratives Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Reese ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

June 30, 2026 • Paul Tremblay has made a career of pushing the horror genre in new directions. This time, a woman must use a video-game-like controller to get a man, stuck in a vegetative state, ...