The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads to cure seasonal blues to novels that transport you to warmer climes, the criteria for a good book is ...

Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

He also wrote the book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, which explored his passion for Transcendental Meditation — a practice which had a massive impact on his work.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ...

A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja ... Pillai explodes the myth of a singular, unchanging, “true” Hinduism. At the same time, he lays out the factors that allowed Hindu ...

This is known as the book value, or carrying value, of the asset. For all intents and purposes, the two terms are interchangeable. The term book value is derived from the accounting practice of ...