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

He wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English in his fight against apartheid, an effort that landed him in jail for seven ...

The prose is amazing. BOOKS: Was your reading different when you were a chef ... load of books that I was never going to read ...

Upon reading it, I wanted more of Kang’s beautiful and honest prose and disorienting style, which reveals deep truths of the ...

When he first started teaching, Eli Burrell was shocked at the "almost disdainful reaction" of students to poetry.

Henry Taylor was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia to write exquisitely crafted verses about wild places.

On days when your energy is low, steer clear of Girl, Ruth Padel’s freshly released poetry collection published by Chatto & ...

Two St. John Fisher University students are bringing the gift of reading to Rochester city schools with a story all their own ...

Folks who’ve met Margaret Gibson know she’s a wise, compassionate, thoughtful and gentle person. Those only familiar with her ...

He suggests as much in his famous essay On Fairy-Stories (1947). As The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien attests, that same dynamic is at play in his poetry as much as his prose. But be forewarned: ...

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