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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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In “Cape Fever,” a young maid finds herself dealing with ghosts from the past and a manipulative employer.

An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.

In “The Sea Captain’s Wife,” Tilar J. Mazzeo tells the thrilling story of Mary Ann Patten, the first female captain of a merchant clipper ship.

James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.

Here are the books our columnist loved the most this year.

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books.

In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.

Lauren Rothery’s “Television” finds an action star and two writers dazed by the changing rules of the entertainment industry.

This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens.

“I have to be still for a certain amount of time,” says the “Wicked” star and author of “Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much.”

The pair work together to envision Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of the author’s latest novel, “The School of Night.”

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.

As told in Tarpley Hitt’s rollicking “Barbieland,” the rise of America’s doll alter ego is much messier and more interesting than any movie.

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say?

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.

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

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Raised in a large chaotic family outside Boston, the journalist Janice Page recalls an eventful childhood and the love story that brought her to China and back again.