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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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With “The Lost Boys” on Broadway and Cynthia Erivo in “Dracula” in London, our horror expert looks at how bloodsuckers sunk their teeth into pop culture.

Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards, the director appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about his latest film.

His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.

“The Optimists,” by Brian Platzer, is an account of an extraordinary character, as remembered by her middle-school instructor.

Judith Chernaik’s idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide.

Our romance columnist says, “With romcoms, you need to go big or go home.” These novels do just that.

Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee’s “Because of a Shoe” and Beatrice Alemagna’s “Her Muddy Majesty of Muck” address children’s anger with compassion.

A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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

James Salter’s “Light Years” had a big influence on “So Old, So Young,” his new book about college friends drifting in and out of one another’s lives.

In Tayari Jones’s new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they’ve always yearned for.

In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.

The best-selling author Marie Lu recommends thrilling reads that ground enchanting adventures in recognizable settings.

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.

In “Playing for Time,” she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.

She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.

The milestones of an undergrad friend group give shape and color to Grant Ginder’s latest novel, “So Old, So Young.”

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer.

In “Why I Am Not an Atheist,” Christopher Beha makes the case for faith.

Mohammed Hanif’s “Rebel English Academy” follows three characters in the politically fraught Pakistan of the late 1970s.

A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate’s work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results.

In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color.

With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed.

A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky’s “Evil Genius.”

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

A new book shows how the decline of the studios and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into critical and popular success.