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Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.

“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.

In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”

Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.

“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.

Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.

The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.

Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.

Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.

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

In the hands of skilled novelists, the stories of an heiress, a prime minister and a literary mystery woman are brought to life.

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious award.

How do you explain the democratic process to future voters? Start with these lively picture books and compelling histories.

Jason Schreier’s “Play Nice” tells the story of Blizzard Entertainment from its fratty, debauched ’90s heyday to the height of its corporate glut.

The follies of violence and rhetoric in the Vietnam War and World War II have a lot of lessons for the leaders of Israel, Iran and the next American president.

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.

“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”

Bob Woodward doesn’t know which story he wants to tell in his latest presidential chronicle.

His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.

Created by Humans, a company that aims to help writers license their works for use by A.I. companies, has struck a partnership with the Authors Guild.

She survived Auschwitz, wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and spoke to a following of 2 million fans on TikTok.

Otherworldly creatures, apocalyptic environments, serial killers, zombies and more haunt these suspenseful comic books and graphic novels.

As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic asks: Is greatness overrated?

Cécile Desprairies’s novel, ‘The Propagandist,’ was also inspired by her mother, who made art and slogans for Vichy France and its Nazi leaders.

In “Selling Sexy,” two veteran fashion journalists examine how Victoria’s Secret fell from grace.

In this family saga, a floundering lawyer must tap into her supernatural heritage to help her family in the past and present.

The book, “War,” lays bare just how frustrated the president has become with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war in Gaza began.

The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report.

In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.

Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express.

“Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.

A conversation through books.

Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who covers books and the publishing industry for The New York Times, explains how books are being pulled from libraries in a quiet process called weeding. Weeding normally allows librarians to keep collections current, but some lawsuits argue that it has been used instead to remove books for content about racism, sexuality and gender.

In a new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Elvis Presley’s daughter and granddaughter take turns exploring a messy legacy.

Transported to safe haven in England as a Jewish child in 1938, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in autobiographical fiction like “Other People’s Houses.”

A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.

In “Diary of a Crisis,” Saul Friedländer takes the violence and upheaval in Israel day by day.

An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.

John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.

Once called “probably the funniest and most malicious” of the postmodernists, his books reflected a career-long interest in reimagining folk stories, fairy tales and political myths.

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.

Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.

Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.

The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”

Our crime columnist on books by Kate Atkinson, Nicholas Meyer, Marcie R. Rendon and Nilanjana Roy.

In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative.

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond.

In a comprehensive biography, the historian Dan Jones tries to reconcile the hero of legend with the complicated young monarch of reality.

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