The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you some of our recent favorites, Golden Age mysteries we love, our latest reviews, books that bring the 1960s to life, new paperbacks, great World ...

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A middle-aged writer returns to his college town to record the final interview with his 90-year-old intellectual mentor. But he’s broken his phone, and doesn’t seem able to confess that it’s not ...

A wannabe folk singer’s humdrum life as a shrimp catcher is upended by the arrival of a mysterious American stranger in the Booker-listed tale Seascraper opens with Thomas Flett rising at five in the ...

You see those green shoots? It’s a new season, baby. And with that comes plenty of new reading opportunities. You can take a book outside, settle under a tree and get lost for a few hours. Or, you ...

In a fading 1960s seaside town, a young shrimp shanker dreams of becoming a folk singer. When a glamorous American arrives, his ambitions ignite in this slim, atmospheric novel of class, longing and ...

Described by 2025 Booker judges as, "A book about dreams, an exploration of class and family, a celebration of the power and the glory of music, a challenge to the limits of realism, and - stunningly ...

Benjamin Wood’s latest novel Seascraper (Scribner, 2025), longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025, is a tale of a young shrimp fisher Tom Flett who has an extraordinary expertise about sea and beaches ...

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Wood wins the award for fiction for his ‘utterly immersive’ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood ...