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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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“Stones From the River,” her best-known work and an early Oprah’s Book Club selection, was set in a fictional German town in the early 20th century.

Kimon de Greef’s “The Ego Trip” is an enthralling, galling journey into the deeply weird underbelly of the psychedelic renaissance.

Claudia Rankine’s latest autobiographical work, “Triage,” asks how best to effect change in the world.

In “Don’t Be Evil,” Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.

The Italian best seller “All That Is Left of Life” is a cinematic family drama set in the summer of 1980.

A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.

Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.

Food books by chefs and celebrities arrive by the landslide. “Voices From the Kitchen” highlights workers who get far less attention.

Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.

In Fiona Mozley’s novel “Awake Awake,” a London writer returns to her hometown to unearth hazy memories of past friendships and traumas.

Millions look to Nicole LePera for advice on how to achieve contentment and maintain healthy relationships. But her own story is complicated.

In “The Story of Your Life,” Kathryn Jezer-Morton explores, without castigating, the wish to present a curated version of experience via social media.

Paul Yoon’s deeply moving novel “Etna” explores the aftermath of war with an unconventional narrator.

Prompted by a fierce attachment to his own pet, Paul Yoon wrote a harrowing yet hopeful novel, set during wartime, told from a canine perspective.

“Plant Lady,” by the Korean novelist Minyoung Kang, imagines an urban haven for women who need an escape from dangerous men.

In Riley Sager’s “The Unknown,” actresses on a research trip stumble into a paranormal mystery.

Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare American expert on political Islam, he became a prolific scholar and a prominent public intellectual.

Douglas Stuart’s latest novel follows a profoundly isolated father and son, each grappling with long-held secrets.

Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Patrick Radden Keefe’s dazzling investigation into the death of a British teenager.

Gripping thrillers, hockey romance, political history, an Appalachian Trail memoir and more.

How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.

In “The Savage Landscape,” the nature writer Cal Flyn argues that wilderness is just one more man-made invention.

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

“We live in the world we inherited from them,” the author Dylan Gottlieb says.

Our columnist on “The Amateur,” by Chris Bohjalian, and two other books.

As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

After finishing his latest book, Karan Mahajan couldn’t decide which opening passage was best. Vote below for the one you prefer.

The best-selling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray recommend gripping books that illuminate hidden chapters of the city’s past.