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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.

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Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.

A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, “Lost Lambs.”

The fourth novel in his Morning Star series follows an ambitious young photographer in 1985 London.

In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world.

The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here’s where to start.

“Miracle Children” details how a Louisiana school exploited the demand for stories of Black trauma.

In “Catapult,” an impulsive project between two friends leads to reflections on human nature and conflict.

In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the Middle East.

In a Pulitzer-winning book, he saw modern America’s origins not so much in one president’s policies as in the sweeping social and technological changes wrought in the years 1815-48.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is accusing a private hospital in Lagos of administering an overdose of a sedative, prompting an outpouring of complaints by Nigerians about their health care system.

His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”

Sara Levine’s “The Hitch” is a winningly zany portrait of a know-it-all whose beliefs are tested by a supernatural intrusion at a family visit.

Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.

Belle Burden shook off her natural reserve to turn her viral divorce essay into “Strangers,” a bracing memoir.

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

The author and the actors Emily Bader and Tom Blyth explain why the movie differs from the novel and raise the possibility of spinoffs.

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all.

“The Old Fire,” an atmospheric new novel by Elisa Shua Dusapin, evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat.

The copy of Action Comics No. 1, published in 1938, was stolen from the actor Nicolas Cage in 2000 and recovered more than a decade later.

When not guiding students in a compassionate approach to patient care, he led a tiny publishing imprint that put out a much-rejected debut novel that won a surprise Pulitzer Prize.

Evans’s epistolary tale, about a retired lawyer who spends her days writing to a series of pen pals, became one of last year’s sleeper hits.

In a trilogy of novellas, a writer explores lives haunted by colonialism and slavery.

His “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the radical founder’s strange and winding story.

Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books to read before their film adaptation releases this year.

Pioneered by Edward Steichen, Lewis W. Hine and Tana Hoban, photographically illustrated “concept” books have never had a more potentially receptive audience.

In “Sheer,” the novelist Vanessa Lawrence imagines the improbable rise and inglorious fall of a self-made Gen X beauty mogul.

Swoony reads will transport you from the doldrums of winter to a Caribbean resort, a Hamptons beach, the streets of Paris and more.

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

Starring in the 1992 film adaptation helped launch an eclectic career. “Ongoing” is the book that accompanies a retrospective on her work.

“I’m writing for the kid I used to be,” says Dav Pilkey, who defied expectations to create three blockbuster graphic-novel series.

He said he would retire from writing and public speaking.

From Connecticut to Cairo, reading spots that will seem like paradise to book- and design-lovers alike.

Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne Phillips; and more.

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more.