Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca. By Calum Marsh Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca. By Calum Marsh Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Daisuke Itabashi’s action‑fantasy seinen manga traces a once all‑powerful elf’s journey rediscovering how to live after the light of her magic fades. io9 has your first look at 'Star Wars Icons: Vader ...

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.