By Daisy Fried The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost ...

Place of detention: unknown within Eritrea’s brutal prison system. Co-founded the independent Tigrinya weekly newspaper, ...

Ties appeared to strenghten following a 2018 peace deal, only to deteriorate again. One Eritrean refugee, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said he was arrested after someone heard ...

One Eritrean refugee, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said he was arrested after someone heard him speaking Tigrinya - a language used in Eritrea, as well as Ethiopia's Tigray ...

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Now he’s paying it forward. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow. The last few titles on the list known as the extended list, never have arrows.

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time. The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...