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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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Jonas Hassen Khemiri plays with time, belonging and his own insecurities in a big, impressive novel that revolves around a trio of magnetic Swedish women.

An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s landmarks preservation law.

In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first nonfiction book is equal parts memoir, history, polemic and poetry.

Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.

8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.

And A.O. Scott on the joys inherent in giving poems a close read.

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.

In his candid memoir “Comedy Samurai,” the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why creative collaborations end.

The fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders recommends some of her favorite, most magical books.

Amy Bloom’s “I’ll Be Right Here” zigzags between Paris and Poughkeepsie as it shares the saga of Algerian siblings and their chosen family.

Visit the aquatic hereafter in a fantasy, then track down threats on Martha’s Vineyard in a taut contemporary suspense novel.

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

With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard.”

Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.

“I try to fight this lamentable tendency,” he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. “Odyssey” is the fourth in his series on Greek mythology.

An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.

Heather Clark’s debut novel, “The Scrapbook,” considers young love as buffeted by historical ruptures.

In her exceptional biography, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson puts the American fashion icon Claire McCardell back in the pantheon.

In Karim Dimechkie’s “The Uproar,” the best-laid plans meet worst-case scenarios again and again.

Call it autofiction, supernatural or a comedy of dislocation: In “The Sisters,” Jonas Hassen Khemiri takes his biggest swing yet.

He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society’s marginalized.

Her lawyers urged that she keep her testimony short. With legal victories in hand, she’s sharing her life story, and what it was like on the stand.

In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing.

“Fox” details the devastation wrought by a manipulative English teacher who sexually abuses his students.

In Heather Clark’s novel, “The Scrapbook,” an American girl meets a German boy and falls head over heels — and headfirst into a history of fascism.

He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.

Michelle Huneven’s novel “Bug Hollow” begins with a tragedy in 1970s California. The ramifications are felt across three countries and five decades.

Leigh Claire La Berge’s memoir looks back at her stint as a consultant for a Fortune 500 company at the turn of the millennium: “Is this how companies are put together?”

Joe Westmoreland captures the pleasures and pains of American wanderlust in his forgotten classic “Tramps Like Us.”

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

Dennard Dayle’s satirical new book, “How to Dodge a Cannonball,” follows a white flag-bearer pretending to be a Black soldier.

She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced a candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.