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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.

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His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.

Bob Crawford discusses the leap from stage to page and why his new book, “America’s Founding Son,” feels so relevant.

Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.

A distinguished American poet, she examined the experience of being Black and female in the 20th century.

She enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a glittering, annihilating humorist. For her epitaph, she suggested, “Excuse My Dust.”

Her large body of work, which included poetry, essays and autobiography, reflected her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice.

Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.

An iconoclastic journalist, she was known for her war coverage and her aggressive, revealing interviews with the powerful.

She was recognized in 1945 for three “Soñetos de la Muerte” (“Sonnets of Death”), which were first published in Chile in 1922.

She overcame blindness and deafness, but insisted that there was nothing miraculous about her achievements.

She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker.

A star writer from the heyday of magazines reveals the family secret behind his award-winning stories.

Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Arsenio Hall; essays from David Sedaris and Jesmyn Ward; plus histories, true crime, biographies and more.

New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.

In “Little Monk Writes Rain,” “Yulu’s Linen” and “Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise,” spirited children meet Eastern visual traditions that have a life of their own.

The playwright and his collaborator André Gregory are together again, delivering a sumptuous set of interlinked monologues about life, death and betrayal.

In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation’s legacy of dictatorship and colonialism.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The Book Review podcast is talking with Andy Weir about his book “Project Hail Mary” and its much-anticipated movie adaptation.

In “Chosen Land,” Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.

In “Days of Love and Rage,” Anand Gopal creates an indelible portrait of revolution and civil war in Syria.

Our columnist on the month’s best new books.

Waiting for readers of Diana Gabaldon’s series to see the episode is “exciting and nerve-racking,” says its star, who wrote five books during its 12-year run.

The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s new novel, “Lake Effect,” is the latest in a specific contemporary subgenre: “Four Adult Siblings Reconvene to Rehash Their Privileged but Fraught Adolescence.”

In “Reproductive Wrongs,” the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.

A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue.

Ivana Sajko’s novel “Every Time We Say Goodbye” explores personal and political crises in lengthy, lyrical sentences.

For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville’s novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.

In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source material.

In “Muv,” the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch.

In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel “Repetition,” a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises.

In “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts,” a therapist’s home turns into a nightmare manifestation of her sadness and grief.

“Field Notes From an Extinction,” by Eoghan Walls, follows a naturalist who wants to study birds but ends up with a much harder task.

Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, “Now I Surrender,” weaves past and present in a baroque anti-Western set in contested borderlands.

“Backstitch,” a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.

In “El Paso,” Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.

In M.L. Stedman’s new novel, “A Far-Flung Life,” the beauty and breadth of her setting stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.

Our columnist on the month’s best new mysteries.

Jesse Appell left everything behind to pursue a comedy career in China, where Western-style club comedy was just finding its footing.

Funny, furious and profane, “You With the Sad Eyes” finds the TV star facing childhood trauma and reflecting on the limits imposed by illness.

In Maria Stepanova’s novel “The Disappearing Act,” an accidental stopover in a foreign town leads to personal change.

James Cahill’s “The Violet Hour” contrasts the artifice of blue-chip modern art with the messy personal lives of the people who create and consume it.

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