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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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An economic historian and political maverick, he was a sometimes polarizing public intellectual and a member of the House of Lords.

In an evocative new memoir, the journalist Wilbert L. Cooper explores the history, and paradoxes, of race and policing in Cleveland, his hometown.

The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable.

Our columnist on three of the month’s best releases.

I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in the classroom.

In “The Time Tax,” the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.

In Jennifer Hillier’s new book, a woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on the shores of her seaside town.

In “Up on Cove Mountain” Earl Swift confronts a place — and a tragedy — that haunts him.

Four authors grapple with the fight over American identity, from the colonial era to the modern day.

The author Priya Parker says the key to human connection is to lean into the fight.

In “The Great Wherever,” generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate whether or not to sell their ancestral home.

“The Anniversary,” a novel by the Italian novelist Andrea Bajani, examines a marriage ravaged by abuse and malice.

Our columnist on four of the month’s best releases.

William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject.

She published two books about her famous mother but didn’t fully embrace the family business until her late 50s, when she began writing “Dear Prudence” for Slate.

He pioneered a technique for using computers to predict short-term movements in stock prices, something that proved to be hugely lucrative — when it worked.

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel, “The Breakup,” a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.

Works by Amy Schwartz, Sophie Blackall, Oliver Jeffers and Chris Priestley show little ones what they might miss if they stay home.

Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

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

“Lots of white space on a page. Short paragraphs that move.” This month Apple TV airs Season 2 of a series based on his 2016 sci-fi thriller “Dark Matter.”

Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.

In a new book, Jill Lepore examines what happens when we abandon liberal democracy for rule by automation and machines.