From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to One Thousand and One Nights, these fantasy books shaped storytelling beyond ...

Fantasy has many masterful books, including a few that establish their quality from the opening pages, such as The Way of ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you our latest reviews, thrilling romantasy reads, magical heists, twists on ancient myths, urban fantasies, stories with unlikely heroes and more!

Spring is finally here, and with it, some warmer weather. While many of you will take this as an opportunity to get outside more and see your loved ones, I see this as the prime season for curling up ...

We love good historical fiction—a novel that takes the sweep of history and brings it into sharp focus through individual characters and their tangled motivations, cloaking fact in richly structured, ...

I’ve never been much of a fantasy reader, but mainly because I’m not into the high-stakes plots that are typically present within the genre. However, when I discovered the subgenre of “cozy fantasy,” ...

This can be due to a number of factors, from the author working on other projects, to them taking a conscious break, to grappling with creative delays. Whatever the reason, a years-long wait won’t ...