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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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“The Doll” on Netflix is based on a novel that’s revered in Poland. It also has the requisite duels, corsets and palaces, as well as elaborate wigs and mustaches.

Two career-spanning essay collections, from Nik Cohn and Jerry Stahl, revel in life’s margins and recapture auras past.

In “Exit Party,” by Emily St. John Mandel, two versions of America’s future crash into each other.

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

Pegged to the anniversary of 9/11, “Hollow Bones” now resonates with the riveting Lindsay Clancy trial.

In “Redwood,” Ben Macintyre tells the story of a Russian spy in Iran who betrayed his country in exchange for an unusual request.

In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.

In “A Shadow Over the World,” William I. Hitchcock shows how the early struggle against totalitarianism was rife with contradictions.

A book influencer shares her most anticipated fall reads. Plus, things to do this weekend that don’t involve curling up with a book.

In a new book, the fashion historian Kate Strasdin looks at the makers who designed the monarch’s sartorial persona.

If you’re tempted to ghost someone, try a “connected goodbye” instead.

His moody portrait became the album cover for “Kind of Blue.” Mr. Maisel lived and worked in an old bank that he bought for $102,000 and sold for $55 million.

A new book takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter.

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

Damien Warren-Smith takes (nearly) everything off to play a flightless bird whose natural habitat might be in your very own lap.

“I haven’t finished it yet,” she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, “Otherwhere,” collects 50 years of her poetry.

The new and selected poems in Jill Bialosky’s “Mock Heart” show her steadily circling desire and domesticity.

The author Julie Olivia recommends novels that capture classic rom-com vibes.

In a new book, Susan Neiman argues that by defining evil in terms of individual monstrousness we fail to perceive its widespread hold on our culture.

Her new album, “Good Grief,” mourns friends including her Broadway co-star Gavin Creel. She’s also adapting the Meg Wolitzer novel “The Interestings” into a musical.

Steven Hyden considers the cultural shifts of the past 25 years in a new book about the band.

MJ Franklin of The New York Times Book Review recommends books based on your mood.

In a new novel, the author Ariel Lawhon revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins.

In “Money to Burn,” William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.

The author describes the main character of her new novel, “Exit Party,” to a forensic sketch artist.

The experiences Ms. Kuang had during a summer spent studying Mandarin in the Taiwanese capital helped her shape her newest novel, “Taipei Story.”

Memoirs, biographies, true crime, history and more.

New fiction from Marlon James, Barbara Kingsolver, John Green, John Grisham and much more.