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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.

To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.

The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start.

Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize.

The novelist Richard Osman talks about his best-selling series, which stars a team of crime-solving retirees.

“Black Arms to Hold You Up,” the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact.

In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.

In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.

Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters.

The awards are being announced this week.

A prolific British writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.

The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.

Vincenzo Latronico captures his generation’s desire for an exquisite lifestyle — and pokes fun at it.

The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word.

In an unusual act of literary synergy, two vibrant coming-of-age tales with the same title have arrived one week apart.

Freed after 14 months, Eli Sharabi learned that his family didn’t survive the Oct. 7 attacks. “Hostage” is testimony to his suffering and his hope.

A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel.

The celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck considers the relics of an earlier age in a newly translated essay collection.

In the autofictional “Death and the Gardener,” the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.

Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.

The popular children’s television show has returned, with Mychal Threets trying to recapture the magic of the original show for a streaming audience.

“When those bugs are crawling on Kate Capshaw in ‘Temple of Doom,’ I’m having the time of my life,” the actress and author said.

His new collection draws from his ambitious practice of the form over nearly four decades.

The Fort Lauderdale museum, one of the country’s oldest L.G.B.T.Q. institutions, is looking to its rich archives for lessons in how to survive a crisis. Here’s a look inside its collection.

A new reissue of Siegfried Kracauer’s 1928 novel “Ginster” offers a darkly humorous window into one German conscript’s inglorious journey.

Over nearly a half-century, he wrote 10,000 epigrams, none longer than 17 words, and printed them on postcards, T-shirts, mugs and other products.

Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that her books had been used to train A.I. chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement in history.

Philippe Sands considers the case of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who eluded efforts to bring him to account for state-sponsored terror in Chile.

In a new biography, “It Girl,” the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse.

After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.

As Kate DiCamillo’s beloved novel celebrates a big milestone, Holly Goldberg Sloan’s “Finding Lost” echoes its themes.

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

“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.

Based on a memoir by Alysia Abbott, the movie chronicles gay liberation and the AIDS crisis from the perspective of a gay man’s daughter.

The Lemonheads frontman’s life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band’s first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

Marvel’s White Tiger, frog sorcery, Indigenous tales and more are in “¡Wepa!,” coming to New York Public Library, spotlighting work by or about the island.

Why? Curiosity, “general impatience and all-around quirkiness.” Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.

The lawsuit was an effort to keep ‘And Tango Makes Three,’ about two male penguins raising a chick, in a county’s school libraries.