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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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A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the American Revolution.

In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives.

In Jess Walter’s new novel, “So Far Gone,” a retired environmentalist turned recluse comes out of isolation to find his grandchildren.

Drawing on folklore traditions from around the world, these thrilling and entertaining books put fresh spins on classic tales.

He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times called him a “literary phenomenon.”

In “King of Ashes,” the novelist again returns to rural Virginia as a setting, with a hero who has to face the family he once fled.

In “The Haves and Have-Yachts,” the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos presents an urbane set of profiles in excess.

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

Our columnist on the month’s most notable releases.

In the novel “Peachaloo in Bloom,” the selfishness belongs to one man. In the picture book “The Wanting Monster,” it belongs to us all.

As an author (often blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction), a film director, a lyricist and a host of TV and radio shows, he sought to capture his epoch.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The list includes “Heartwood,” “Other Worlds,” “The Wall” and “The Fact Checker.” Her own new novel is “Flashlight.”

In Austin Taylor’s novel “Notes on Infinity,” the speed of success prevents undergraduate founders from reflecting on, let alone fixing, an original sin.

In these reflections, colleagues, friends and admirers recall his risk-taking, his generosity and his insatiable taste for gossip.

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental.

In “When It All Burns,” Jordan Thomas brings an anthropologist’s eye to the life-or-death struggle with fire.

In “Deep House,” Jeremy Atherton Lin uses the story of his own life as a catalyst for a kaleidoscopic survey of legal flash points regarding gay rights and immigration.

Our columnist on the twisty, suspense-laden books that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories.

The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics.

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations.

“The Listeners” follows a resort manager forced to shelter Axis diplomats, who threaten to disturb the magical springs that make the property a success.

In “The Catch,” struggling twin sisters are forced to rethink their lives after the reappearance of their mother, presumed dead for decades.

An expansive new biography of William F. Buckley Jr. traces the eventful life of the conservative activist who intuitively grasped the media’s centrality to politics.

The author of “The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide” on the reasons the travel publishing giant chose a coffee-table book and how she picked the people and places to feature.

A new memoir by her closest friend sheds light on the woman behind the image.

Once called “our present-day Homer” for her sprawling, experimental epics, she was honored with prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1999.

He began his career as a pastor. But he was forced out of his congregation in 1965, which led to a new life pondering the value of nature.

A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.

“Flashlight,” by Susan Choi, spans several decades and nations to tell a story of exile in its multiple forms.

A new biography of the Republican legislator details his legal mind and his personal struggles.

For “People’s Choice Literature,” Tom Comitta wrote two books based on the likes and dislikes of American readers.

In a sharp new book, Jessa Crispin uses the actor’s career to explore, and complicate, the “crisis of masculinity.”

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

These comic books and graphic novels include a couple of biographical tales: one about coming out as gay, the other about transitioning.

Kevin Sack chronicles the Charleston, S.C., congregation that was the target of a brutal 2015 hate crime, and the church’s central role in the larger saga of the South.

The author of “The House in the Cerulean Sea” recommends captivating books that cast L.G.B.T.Q. people as the heroes, the villains and everything in between.

In seven novels, dozens of essays and a collection of short stories, she explored her Jewish upbringing during apartheid and the ways women negotiate sexual desire.

His long run with that venerable character was the highlight of a career that also encompassed Spider-Man, Aquaman and best-selling “Star Trek” novels.

The Ritz Carlton; a decidedly unwhimsical Turkish inn.