“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system. By Dwight Garner Novels by Colson Whitehead and Daniel Mason, the ...

Sarah Weinman on “Heather,” by Caitlin Mullen, and three more new books. By Sarah Weinman Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. In her biography of the novelist ...

The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder Price, is an enthusiastic go-getter with a strong ...

Mary Berry's ultimate apple cake – a Victoria sponge, that stays really moist thanks to grated apple, filled with lemon-flavoured cream. You will need two 20cm/8in round, loose-bottomed sandwich tins ...

Here’s a little secret: some of the most impressive-looking celebration cakes start with a box of store-bought cake mix. This Fourth of July layer cake — with its dramatic red, white, and blue ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

June 30, 2026 • Paul Tremblay has made a career of pushing the horror genre in new directions. This time, a woman must use a video-game-like controller to get a man, stuck in a vegetative state, ...