An excerpt from Namit Arora’s Introduction to ‘When I See, I Sing: Verses in Translation of Baba Farid, Namdeo, Kabir and ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” By Dwight GarnerJennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs ...

In Akhil Katyal’s new book of poems, which uses playfulness as a technique to deliver an emotional payload, his narrator is ...

They have consequently sought refuge in the mystical Bhakti (devotional) and Sufi poetry as a counterforce to religious hatred. Generally, the police response to religious hatred has been abysmal ...

she asked, switching seamlessly between Punjabi and English as she spoke. Punjabi Sufi poetry should be taught in schools, according to her, and given the same prominence as the Bhakti movement. She ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

December 10, 2024 • This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's ...