Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai ... to turn poison into medicine,” Hancock said in a book about jazz and Buddhism, co-authored with Shorter and Ikeda. Other famous Western actors, writers ...

Toda’s successor, third Soka Gakkai President Daisaku Ikeda (1928 to 2023), built upon this vision through his annual peace proposals issued between 1983 and 2022. He argued that the inhumane ...

These build on the legacy of SGI President Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023), who consistently made concrete suggestions concerning nuclear disarmament and abolition. While complete elimination of ...

By Alexandra Jacobs What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best.

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Here are T&C's picks for the best books of January 2024. Perle Mesta was one of the most famous socialites of midcentury America. She was close to three presidents—Harry Truman, Dwight ...

The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the romantasy genre’s staying power. By Alexandra Alter We asked 10 writers ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age “Elita” is a novel ...