Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One ...

South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach died on Sunday in Paris at the age of 85, his daughter ...

In elementary school, when for Father’s Day we would make construction paper ties with dorky poems on the back ... I find myself devoted to the fictional: to the things we can’t make true in this life ...

Director Josh Forbes tells IndieWire why he felt compelled to spend months of his life following the infamous prop comedian ...

which was the first publication of Cavafy's poems internationally, and the recently acquired art book Cavafy, My father and ...

Bedridden with rheumatic fever in the 1940s, and having already lost his father to the disease, Ian Braybrook says he owes ...

MALIBU - A true hero both on and off camera, Baywatch actor, legendary lifeguard, and firefighter Mike "Newmie" Newman ...

Veterans were commemorated in special events at both Independence Primary and Middle Schools marking November 11.

Ted Danson as Charles, looking down through a hole cut out of a newspaper, in episode 101 of 'A Man on the Inside.' Charles ...

Greeks were on the Indian subcontinent quite some time prior to the composition of the the great Indian epic poem, the ...

Shuntaro Tanigawa, a writer, poet, lyricist and translator, who wrote the lyrics for Howl’s Moving Castle, has passed away.