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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.

Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

“More Than Enough” traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.

Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.

The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.

In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.

In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

Ian McGuire’s new novel, “White River Crossing,” tracks a party of 18th-century fortune seekers through the northern Canadian wilds.

As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.

The best stories in “Brawler” find the writer tackling the tectonic shifts that can suddenly crack open seemingly secure families.

Our columnist on four stellar new releases.

The outrageous reality TV star has written a memoir — part evolution, part exorcism. She’s more than ready to tell you why.

In Charleen Hurtubise’s new novel, “Saoirse,” a traumatic family secret propels an American teenager to Ireland in the early 1990s.

With “The Lost Boys” on Broadway and Cynthia Erivo in “Dracula” in London, our horror expert looks at how bloodsuckers sank 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.