Who believed these tales? Unanswerable. But the Morgan Library and Museum has a good go of this question in “The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World.” Spanning mainly 1200 to 1550 ...

$28) begins as Susan Ryeland, a British book editor, starts reading the newest installment in a crime series featuring a Poirot-like detective named Atticus Pünd. The book looks promising — the ...

May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.