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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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Kwame Alexander is starting up an imprint at Sourcebooks, an innovative publisher that has found success in giving authors larger roles in the publishing process.

The author Ashley Herring Blake recommends swoony Sapphic novels that celebrate love between women across eras and genres.

“I can always wait for the streaming version and hope for nudity,” says the writer, whose new novel, “The Tuxedo Society,” is about a cadre of gay spies.

Our columnist reviews “The Tapestry of Fate” and other books.

Our columnist looks at the best recent releases.

Janet Fash’s memoir is both a sunny coming-of-age story and an exposé of corruption, understaffing and unnecessary deaths at Rockaway Beach.

An early champion of the mind-body connection, she held influential positions at Vogue, wrote steamy novels and regularly appeared in the tabloids.

The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine’s voice off on its own adventure.

The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about sexuality dating back to the 17th century.

In “The Housewives Underground,” the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.

Monica Datta’s “Nebraska” is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

He joined the magazine’s staff at 23. Among the subjects of his profiles were the magician Ricky Jay and a pre-politics Donald Trump.

The once-closeted star has reinvented her song “Girls Like Girls” as a best-selling Y.A. novel and a new theatrical film. It wasn’t easy.

Janet Fash was always outspoken when it came to keeping beachgoers safe. She lays it all out in her feisty new memoir.

The writer and actor, known for his profane comedic antiheroes, likes to find universal truths in human flaws.

In “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI,” the renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow tries to find a good way to coexist with artificial intelligence.

His best-selling book celebrated the servicemen in the stirring photograph of the U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima. One, it was long believed, was his father.

How the film writer David Thomson found himself in a lover’s quarrel with cinema — and America.

Ghosts in stories for children are a blank canvas. You can show your audience a ghost and, if you play it right, almost just leave it at that.

The author of books like “The Possible Human,” she held workshops that drew on mythology, psychology and the experiential ethos of Esalen. But she refused to be called a guru.

The older brother of the music mogul Russell Simmons and the rapper Joseph Simmons, he made his own way as an artistic and entrepreneurial force in Brooklyn.

In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House.

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