The New York Times Book Review announced its 10 Best Books of the Year, in a live virtual event featuring Pamela Paul and the other editors. “For us,” said Paul, “A best book is a book that stands on the merits of its prose and its storytelling, and succeeds on the terms that the author set out for it… We choose these books because we think these books offer a level of achievement that readers have come to expect from the New York Times. It’s impossible to fully convey what it takes to get there, but let me say when […]