Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenBenjamin Dreyer, the copy chief at Random House, recently published “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style,” which became ...

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LONDON — Andrea Levy, a prizewinning author whose novels chronicled the experience of Jamaican immigrants to Britain, died Thursday night. She was 62.Her death, from cancer, was confirmed in a stateme ...

R.O. Blechman is an artist and animator. His latest book, a double volume, “On the One Hand (His Art)” and “On the Other Hand (His Essays),” is forthcoming.Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twi ...

Identical twins are also at the center of Anne Ursu’s THE LOST GIRL (Walden Pond/HarperCollins, 368 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 12). They’re physically alike, but Lark is dreamy and creative while Iris is ...

What makes the design of blockchain so clever, De Filippi and Wright note, is its solution to an obvious concern with the description above: Why trust the network? After all, the network is open to an ...

THE AGE OF LIGHT By Whitney ScharerThe trend of publishing novels that dramatize the lives of people who actually lived — bio-fiction — carries on full steam. The subjects are most often women whose s ...

Kurt Andersen, the author, most recently, of “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire,” reviewed Thomas Mallon’s latest novel, “Landfall,” which is set during the George W. Bush years. In 1999, Adam Cly ...

No one expects cops to be au courant with the latest fashions. Nonetheless, Banks knows that a young woman found dead at the scene of an auto accident would not get all dolled up and neglect to take h ...

During a month when some of the biggest headlines have been about a billionaire’s extramarital affair and a politician’s tweet that many took to be anti-Semitic, PEN America has announced a festival t ...