Harold Brown, Tuskegee Airman Who Faced a Lynch Mob, Dies at 98

One of the last surviving Black pilots from that celebrated group, he was surrounded by an angry mob after parachuting from his P-51 over Austria during World War II.

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Demon Dolls, Lonely Dolls and Sex Dolls

An editor recommends old and new books.

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Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet.

Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, was long considered staid. A new generation is reclaiming her as an anti-establishment icon.

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Book Review: ‘The Faraway World,’ by Patricia Engel

The characters in “The Faraway World” seek connection in a disconnected world. Patricia Engel provides it in her own clever way.

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Book Review: ’The Sense of Wonder,’ ‘Vintage Contemporaries,’ ‘All the Beauty in the World’

“The Sense of Wonder,” “Vintage Contemporaries” and “All the Beauty in the World” take on the many dramas of Gotham.

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Book Review: Children’s Picture Books About Knitting, Sewing and Weaving

A boy embroiders the moon, a girl makes coats for canines and a knitted-cape crusader saves the day.

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Book Review: ‘Love, Pamela,’ by Pamela Anderson

Her second memoir — about her small-town coming-of-age, her multiple traumas and Hollywood escapades — is an attempt to set the record straight.

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9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Small-Town Affairs

These romance novels brim with coziness and cupcake bakeries.

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R.F. Kuang Is Curious About Something …

The author of “Babel” likes to raise questions that bother her — ones she hopes will bother her readers too.

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