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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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In six major books, John Iliffe centered his research not on kings, dictators and guerrilla chiefs but rather on ordinary African citizens. He has died at 87.

Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.

The novel, written over 50 years ago, has had several adaptations, not all of them good. A new series from Mike Flanagan has Stephen King’s imprimatur.

These spine-tingling stories cast light on creatures of the dark and reimagine superheroes with darker narratives, just in time for Halloween.

In “Brink,” the U.S. diplomat Brett McGurk gives a diaristic account of his work with the Biden and Trump administrations in the wake of the Hamas attack.

Following the lives of ordinary citizens, a new book by Janet Reitman fashions an intimate, morally complex portrait of an insecure America.

In “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth,” Jeanna Smialek tells the story of a 19th-century author whose fiction brought economic theory down to earth.

In “The AGI Chronicles,” the tech journalist Kevin Roose looks for clues that artificial intelligence might already be smarter than humans.

“London Falling” and “Dissection of a Murder” were among his recent favorite books. “War and Peace” and “A Clockwork Orange” went unfinished.

The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.

A theatrical adaptation of “Perfection” by Vincenzo Latronico leans into political critique for an audience that looks a lot like the book’s characters.

A new biography of the late novelist details his youthful escapades, messy relationships and intense commitment to his craft.

A new book celebrates the federal bureaucrats who were quietly doing their jobs when the Department of Government Efficiency started squeezing them out last year.

In “Death of an Ordinary Man,” the award-winning writer Sarah Perry pays tribute to her father-in-law.

In “Partita,” a former piano prodigy is sent reeling into the past after she receives a call from the man who derailed her ambitions.

In “The Rush,” Nathaniel Philbrick paints a portrait of the treasure seekers, prospectors and conniving politicians who shaped the destiny of the United States.

What seems like a story of a man hoping to reunite with a childhood flame is really a high-wire act about police brutality, racist conspiracies and much, much more.

The most comprehensive biography of the hip-hop mogul to date is both an in-depth character study and a 30-year chronicle of crime and hubris.

The artist Christopher Myers designed panels that were built in Mexico and photographed to become a new picture book.

Set just after World War I, “The Eye of Goliath” details a man’s descent into madness and a doctor’s unorthodox treatment methods.

Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.

In Mikita Brottman’s true-crime odyssey, “A Double Life,” things get lurid.

At 82, the famously roguish leading man has written a memoir, “One Helluva Ride,” that’s as candid and intimate as it is feisty.

One of them takes the phrase “joined at the hip” to a whole new level.

John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.

Romantic delusion. Social alienation. Body horror. Just a few of the elements celebrated online — if not always by the writers who earn the label.

The best-selling author Laurie Gilmore recommends books that take all the best bits of a literary love story and take them from fun to feral.

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

Our columnist on new novels from Richard Osman, Lucy Foley and John Grisham.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.

Sarah Hepola’s new memoir picks up where “Blackout” left off: with the story of three passionate, doomed affairs in her 30s and 40s.

It’s one of many surprises in “Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines,” the comedian’s new memoir, and a testimonial to the power of reading.

Two slim novels by Nao-Cola Yamazaki show that romance can often be pretty unromantic.

In “Artificial Intimacy,” Sherry Turkle warns that we seek comfort from A.I. devices at the peril of our well-being and even our democracy.

A new book by Rozina Ali traces the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11, showing how ordinary residents became targets of fear and suspicion.

In Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s novel “Heavy Cream,” a teenager tries to fill the vacuum left behind by her unstable, unreachable mother.

“The Bed Trick” details an extraordinary sexual deception case involving a “bamboozling plot,” “two implausible stories” and a world where no one behaves reasonably.

The beloved author’s follow-up to “Pachinko” features a cram school that dares to promote students’ well-being over academic striving.