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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.

He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry.

During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?

A voracious reader, the president liked poetry, Civil War history and Southern fiction. He also sent Erica Jong a fan letter.

For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re-evaluate his reputation. Here is a look at the expanding Carter library.

He is best known for his book about the Rolling Stones. But he mostly wrote about blues artists, some of them famous (B.B. King) and some less renowned (Furry Lewis).

On a trip to Colombia to see the Netflix production of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” a reporter was struck by memories of real places.

His first novel, “Tanguy,” published when he was 24, was a fact-based Holocaust story that one reviewer said “begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.”

After publishing a definitive biography of Rodin, she went on to write about the underappreciated women who modeled for the giants of 19th-century French art.

Among the notable figures who died in a sometimes polarizing 2024, many championed justice, equal rights and political freedom.

Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry.

Our reviewer read these stories on a train, as the world rolled by out the window.

Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece.

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

“I get real geek joy out of learning something new,” says the imprint’s vice president and publisher. She’s proud to have broadened the definition of a classic during her tenure.

Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

In a new book, two photographers memorialize the bird that charmed New York City and the world.

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896.

Albertine, in a Fifth Avenue mansion, is a portal to both Gilded Age New York and the Francophone world.