Books

Your essential guide to NYC bookstores, author readings and book signings

You don’t have to like reading to geek out over the most gorgeous NYC libraries, from the NYPL to Jefferson Market

Bass began working at the store his father founded at age 13

The Redefining Realness author talks to Dylan Marron about her new memoir

Books with socially-charged themes dominated the list of most checked-out books

Amazon is making its first foray into brick-and-mortar bookstores in the NYC market

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In the opening pages of her memoir, Kim Gordon finds herself in the midst of two breakups

As victims across the country forget their names, one woman's memories won't let her go

The short-story master will bring out your inner voyeur in another collection of simple, entrancingly realistic fictions

A cult essayist expands his oeuvre—and leaves no doubt about his talent—in this deeply relatable nonfiction collection

Two teens face a stalker and deal with their own failings in a richly detailed debut

Myths, metaphors and vampires: Eula Biss’s expansive exploration of vaccination will surprise you

From classic Brooklyn bildungsroman to a modernist scramble through Manhattan, these books create NYC in their image

NYC has been the literary landscape to countless authors

From classic Brooklyn bildungsroman to a modernist scramble through Manhattan, these books create NYC in their image

From classic Brooklyn bildungsroman to a modernist scramble through Manhattan, these books create NYC in their image

NYC has been the literary landscape to countless authors

The Female Chauvinist Pigs author and world-traveling New Yorker writer talks to us about her harrowing new memoir

The author talks about her new collection of political and pop culture essays

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers a revealing look back on her childhood and her mother’s death