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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.

“The Outsiders” is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.

Nearly half a century before “Heated Rivalry” skated its way to screens, a budding literary talent pseudonymously published some sporty smut of his own.

In “Hated by All the Right People,” the journalist Jason Zengerle looks at the conservative pundit’s many transformations.

In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends surrounding a complex ancient culture.

In “Until the Last Gun Is Silent,” Matthew F. Delmont shows how the conflict consumed a civil rights leader and tore a soldier apart.

In “Vigil,” an oil tycoon on his deathbed receives a visit from an angel.

An artist knocked off her path by a manipulative professor is at the center of Larissa Pham’s spare and troubling new book, “Discipline.”

Our critic on four excellent new novels.

The pop culture critic discusses his new book about the sport and its place in American culture.

Like the flakes themselves, no two are the same.

The author Janie Chang recommends novels about people who push back against the expectations of their time.

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

In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.

“I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.

A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and government (including a study of beleaguered press officers).

Our columnist read “The Everlasting” too late to put it on her Best of 2025 list. She’s sorry!

Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today.

Fantasy epics, pastoral classics and family dramas provide something to sink your teeth into on cold evenings.