A permanent feature of the Church of England's worship and a key source for its doctrine, the Book of Common Prayer is loved for the beauty of its language and its services are widely used. The Prayer ...

Worship is at the very heart of Anglicanism. Its styles vary from simple to elaborate, or even a combination. Until the late twentieth century the great uniting text was The Book of Common Prayer, in ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

Muslims believe that the Quran is a complete and perfect book, and it provides guidance for their lives. The Prayer Times The prayer times are at dawn (Fajr), shortly after noon (Dhuhr), mid ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” By Dwight GarnerJennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs ...

We may earn an affiliate commission from links. We like to think of this list of the best books of 2024 as the anti-algorithm, a collection of specific, individual, and eclectic works that have ...

"The Great Big Book of Everything" is a magical book owned by Stanley Griff in the 2001 series Stanley. It is a book on all kinds of animals, and it can be used to travel into the habitats of those ...

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.

We asked our writers what books moved them the most, and they had plenty of suggestions. After a lot of back and forth, and a really hard time narrowing down the selections, we picked ten favorites.

An Image of My Name Enters America, by Lucy Ives 2024 was the year of the breakup book; you couldn’t encounter the new-releases table at the bookstore without running into a flurry of wonderful ...

The year’s outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction, selected by the Books editorial staff.