It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

Was Shakespeare satirizing ... film More than 180 of Kozinski’s poems have been published in 40 literary journals, and he has produced two full-length books of poetry, “Tripping Over Memorial ...

This collection includes a moving supernatural romance, eye-opening historical accounts, a portrait of a poet and the ...

Instead of trying to break down the art of naming a child, let’s try something different and use art as inspiration for the ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light,” a new “Bridget ...

The poetry of Fady Joudah. In his new book of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement—and the difficulty of healing amid ...

It was dark so I couldn’t see which book I had but I was happy to be surprised. Emily and Elizabeth Browning have been my lifelong poetry heroines. Settling on the window seat, I switched on a ...

From carrying a computer between flat shares in her 20s to working with a Hollywood director on a screen adaptation of Hamnet ...