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  1. Lena Dunham Brought Her Own Pillows This Time

    Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote “Famesick,” a new memoir, she’s taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.

    By Elisabeth Egan

    Lena Dunham and Andrew Rannells during the “Famesick” book tour stop at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
    Lena Dunham and Andrew Rannells during the “Famesick” book tour stop at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
    CreditNina Westervelt for The New York Times

  1. Sign Up for the Book Review’s 2026 Challenge

    (It’s about poetry. And you’ll love it.)

    By The New York Times Books Staff

    CreditHannah Robinson

  2. The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

    As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

    By The New York Times Books Staff

    CreditJulia Gartland for The New York Times

  3. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book: Historical Fiction

    Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

    By The New York Times Books Staff

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  4. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Thriller

    Whether you’re looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

    By The New York Times Books Staff

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  5. The 10 Best Books of 2025

    The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

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  1. How ‘Muskism’ Is Changing the Way America Works

    In a new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue that Elon Musk’s disruptive approach to business is transforming both politics and the economy.

    By Jennifer Szalai

    Elon Musk visits a Tesla plant in Germany in 2024. Muskism, like Fordism, is not an individual but a system.
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  2. In ‘Famesick,’ Lena Dunham Diagnoses Celebrity, Illness and Herself

    This unusually unfiltered memoir takes us to the hospital, to therapy and to the sometimes hostile set of “Girls.”

    By Alexandra Jacobs

    In “Famesick,” Lena Dunham describes how she and her often-fragile body have been harshly scrutinized.
    CreditOK McCausland for The New York Times

  3. A Brand-Name Novelist Revisits His Old Friend and Alter Ego

    Jay McInerney has written about the literary party boy Russell Calloway once a decade since the 1990s. He returns in the Covid novel “See You on the Other Side.”

    By Dwight Garner

    CreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times

  4. A Teenager Plunged to His Death. A Reporter Found More to the Story.

    A new book by Patrick Radden Keefe retraces the secret life of a 19-year-old Londoner who fell in with a gangster underworld.

    By Jennifer Szalai

    The Riverwalk luxury residential complex in London, where Zac Brettler fell from a fifth-floor apartment under mysterious circumstances in 2019.
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  5. A New Orleans Heroine Who’s Uneasy in the Big Easy

    The well-born protagonist of Nancy Lemann’s novel “The Oyster Diaries” returns home and immediately feels like an outsider.

    By Dwight Garner

    Nancy Lemann writes about women who are frank, sardonic, bookish and neurotic. She channels their discontent into slashing little thunderstorms of meaning, our critic writes.
    CreditEliza Cline
  1. Nonfiction

    Is There a Right Way to Rebel?

    In “How to Be a Dissident,” Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of today.

    By Astra Taylor

  8. How to Be Cultured

    A highly idiosyncratic compendium of what you need to know right now.

    By T Magazine

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