Gregory Cowles

The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.

Carl Sandburg’s boyhood; Carolyn Forché’s political awakening.

Gregory Cowles, the poetry editor of The New York Times Book Review, recommends four books that are perfect for National Poetry Month.

The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder.

An editor recommends Lorrie Moore’s “Birds of America” and Mary Webb’s “Precious Bane”

The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.

In “Walking With Sam,” the actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy looks back on an epic adventure.

An editor recommends old and new books.

An editor recommends old and new books

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.