Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca. By Calum Marsh Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Informative histories, modern retellings and genre-bending homages will take you back to the long road to Ithaca. By Calum Marsh Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.