Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

THE Ateneo de Manila University Press and the University of the Philippines  (UP) Press were jointly named Publisher of the Year at the 42nd National Book Awards on Nov. 23. Each of them had seven ...

In a new book, 40 First Nations writers and thinkers share their favourite, or significant words from their own languages: ...

A Memoir in Poetry and Prose” is unique among the many memoirs I have read and reviewed. It’s probably the most ...

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

The Oxford Book of English Prose, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, appeared in November 1925, exactly twenty-five years after The Oxford Book of English Verse. The immense success of the latter, ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Mdu Dlamini despised the label of "journalist," preferring to see himself as a writer—a creator of worlds, a storyteller and ...

How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the ...

Deborah Levy is a celebrated novelist, memoirist and playwright whose latest book - "The Position of Spoons" - is a petite ...