Books
Your essential guide to NYC bookstores, author readings and book signings
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Holiday gift guide 2012: Books
Find holiday gifts for bibliophile pals including a New York noir series, aid for a local bookshop and dinner with Joyce Carol Oates
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Unlikely advice books
Cheat, Flirtexting and Judging a Book by Its Lover make for curious self-help tomes
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The Wire fans go Down in the Hole
The book expansion of an online serial transplants the TV series to a Dickensian setting
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David Byrne
The former Talking Head reflects on history, musicology and his past in new title How Music Works.
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Ten Books Sexier Than Fifty Shades
These books are hotter and much better written than the E.L. James S&M trilogy—save that for your mother.
Critics’ picks
The Poetic Species: A Conversation with Robert Hass and E.O. Wilson
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
In this cross-disciplinary talk, poet Hass and scientist Wilson consider where their work overlaps.
- Until Thu Dec 6
- American Museum of Natural History
A Tribute to Louise Glück
- Critics choice
- Free
Tonight, Frank Bidart, Dana Levin, Robert Pinsky, Peter Streckfus and Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrate Glück's simple lines and their profound implications.
- Fri Dec 14
- Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (at The New School)
What the Dickens? Third Annual A Christmas Carol Marathon
- Critics choice
- Free
Downtown authors and actors, including Eileen Myles, transport a crowd from wintry NYC to wintry Victorian London in a marathon reading of Dickens’s classic tale of redemption from humbuggery.
- Sat Dec 15
- Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
A Light That Never Goes Out: Tony Fletcher Reveals the Smiths
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Rock biographer Tony Fletcher turns his attention to the gloom and glam of Morrissey, Marr and the Smiths in his new book.
- Mon Dec 17
- Strand Book Store
Recent reviews
Review: Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
- Rated as: 3/5
McEwan's Cold War spies are possessed more by love, writing and personal betrayals than they are by state secrets
Review: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman
- Rated as: 4/5
The British novelist's adaptations shine a light on the strange, visceral and morally complicated qualities of these inescapable fables
Review: Dear Life by Alice Munro
- Rated as: 5/5
Whether poets at cocktail parties or lovers in TB wards, Munro finds a perfect marriage of character and setting in this evocative collection of short stories
Review: Astray by Emma Donoghue
- Rated as: 3/5
These stories, which take their cues from historical events and extant documents, fare best when Donoghue lets her imagination wander
Top stories
Martin Amis
The recently transplanted novelist talks England, Christopher Hitchens and new novel Lionel Asbo.
Best New York places in literature (that you can still visit)
Connect with the Plaza Hotel, the Empire State Building and the Museum of Natural History through the eyes of great New York writers.
Alison Bechdel
A celebrated graphic novelist dives back in with another intimate memoir about a parent.
Best New York books to impress New Yorkers
The New York books—novels, biographies, histories, photo books and more—that will earn the most cred with culturally savvy city dwellers.
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