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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.

Three new books — a sweeping work of nonfiction, a cheeky memoir and a dual biography — provide divergent views on the business of buying and selling, and they are out just in time for New York Art Week.

In John Lanchester’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” a widow is unnerved when a hit TV series airs details from her marriage a little too closely.

The Canadian poet Karen Solie balances environmental concerns with hope and deadpan wit.

Rita Collins had a dream for her retirement: bringing books and people together all over the country. Behind the wheel of a van she’s making it happen.

In “Selling Opportunity,” Mary Lisa Gavenas tells the not-always-rosy story of Mary Kay, the brand — and its founder.

As these books show, the United States has long struggled to reconcile its imperial ambition with its founding ideals, prompting detractors at home and abroad.

Her time in concentration camps brought her an understanding of humanity that helped her treat her patients.

Even admirers admitted his densely intellectual work could be “punishing.” Still, some considered him one of England’s most important poets.

“Wild Swans,” a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao’s regime.

The filmmakers behind this adaptation of a best-selling novel were adamant that their ovine sleuths not seem like humans in, well, sheep’s clothing.

From fashion to art, an explainer on our love of wetlands.

As a child, Lisa Owens aligned herself with the little ones depicted in these books; now it was the harried adults who captivated her.

In “One Leg on Earth,” a young college grad’s idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare.

In “Screen People,” Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.

The best-selling author Stephanie Dray recommends books that explore the bonds between mothers and their children across centuries.

In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of World War II internment.

“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”

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

Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.

Fonda Lee’s “cyberpunk samurai in space” novel follows a sword-wielding warrior trying to finish one last job.

In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul neighborhood to better understand Turkey’s hard-right turn.

What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway? Luke Evans transforms in five-inch heels and an endless supply of glitter.

Our columnist on the month’s standout books.

Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.

The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.

The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights.

“The Family Man,” by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.

Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark’s “The Hill” portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother’s jail cell and the world outside.

In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.

“Riverwork,” by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.

Séamas O’Reilly’s new novel is a boisterous sendup of “prestige” media and its distortion of Northern Ireland’s complex past.

“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”

In a new book, Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster and the story of his illness.

“The Things We Never Say” leaves behind Crosby, Maine, for Massachusetts, where a middle-aged history teacher discovers a long-buried family secret.

In the powerful and surprising “John of John,” Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he’d left behind.