Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
In the shadows of these histories, however, lie great sports stories of everyday Black Bostonians who forged their own sporting traditions under prejudiced conditions. “ : A Contested Sports History , ...
But the best travel books can also inspire journeys ... which has all the charm, history, and wine of busy Florence, plus sunny beaches. Instead of Miami, architecture buffs would do well ...