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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.

“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?

As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, filmmaker, TV host and formative tastemaker.

In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists.

Our critic on three terrific new mysteries and a gem-filled story collection.

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An adaptation has a twist that doesn’t track, and songs that benefit from an excellent cast, including Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess and Adam Jacobs.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” a project from which they were dismissed.

Ten recommendations for fans of Ann M. Martin’s iconic paperback series.

Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.

Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”

Encores! revisits a Jazz Age tale of debauchery, with showstoppers from Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren, Jordan Donica, Tonya Pinkins and others.

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

The rapper known for his quirky turns of phrase and malapropisms is trying his hand at a memoir.

A few editors from the New York Times’s Book Review give their recommendations for what new releases you should be reading this spring.

The best-selling author Kiersten White recommends novels about everyone’s favorite undead bloodsuckers, by Anne Rice, Silvia Moreno Garcia and more.

“I have written six books and counting just because I was very annoyed at how a character was written in a video game,” she says. Her “disgusting” new novel is “Wolf Worm.”

“Paradiso 17,” by Hannah Lillith Assadi, considers the toll of displacement through the tale of a Palestinian émigré.

Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday.

A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day.

Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination.

“The other Peruvian” (alongside Mario Vargas Llosa), he exposed the heedlessness of the upper crust, which he knew well, and the suffering of the underclasses.

During his 50-year career, he represented dozens of best-selling authors, including Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking and Michael Lewis.

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.

Is there anyone John Lithgow can’t — or won’t — play?

In “Chain of Ideas,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that a modern form of xenophobia has come to dominate conservative movements across the world.

In a new book, Caroline Tracey explores the mysteries and beauty of salt lakes.

Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Sisters in Yellow” follows a group of dreaming and scheming young women through society’s margins.

In “Stay Alive,” Ian Buruma paints a picture of the city dwellers who survived in Germany under the Nazis.

His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.

She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.

A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution in cooking.