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In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs. By Peter S. Goodman

Dec 2, 2025 · The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

It began with Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Nobel Prize in October, and continued this month with the Booker Prize and the National Book Awards. Our panel of editors discusses what it all means.

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks ...

Nov 2, 2025 · I have to know: How will Homer, Candy, Wally and Angel ever make their unusual family work? I order the campers outside to wrestle with the mosquitoes. The book has stayed with me since.

Jan 11, 2026 · A correction was made on Jan. 11, 2026 : A headline with an earlier version of this review misidentified the author of the book. It is Belle Burden, not her mother, Amanda Burden.

Feb 1, 2024 · Or not. This is one of our 100 Notable Books of 2024! See the full list here, and keep track of how many you’ve read or want to read. The familiar beats snare you from the outset.

Mar 19, 2025 · In a new book, the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster considers how the air we share connects us to others.

Feb 24, 2025 · The famous Baltimore Orioles manager gets a vivid new biography, the book equivalent of “a screaming triple into the left field corner.”