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

Nigel Hamilton 's new book, " Lincoln vs. Davis ," is a study of its subjects as rival Civil War commanders. Below, the ...

Steve Rogers was the first superhero to show up at Stuttgart, where Loki had forced a group of humans from a gala to kneel ...

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left ...

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left ...

Chicago engineer Jose Cardona says the idea for a clock wasn’t his alone, he was just the first to build one. Four years ...

"Your friendly neighborhood Spider-man" is a famous phrase the hero says in the comic books, and in 2002's Spider-Man, Tobey ...

To know the truth about something, listen to someone who loves it, rather than someone who detests it, historian Jed ...

The world-famous choral masterpiece has a doting audience ... One day in 1741, Jennens began pulling books down from his ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet ...