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.

Finding a book you?ll love can be daunting. Let us help.

?A Talent for Murder? turns the novelist into a suspicious character in a psychological thriller. The author?s caustic personality makes the leap plausible.

An expert in correspondence shares how to craft letters with impact for both the sender and the recipient.

After a five-year hiatus, Sarah J. Maas returns with the latest installment in her best-selling romantasy series.

A probing, excellent account of one crusading medical professor explores the humanity behind literature?s master of deduction.

Whether you?re following a path through the woods or gasping at a voice from the ghost world, Daniel Nayeri?s new novel surprises and delights.

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

Spending seven hours and 51 minutes at the second annual marathon reading of Sylvia Plath?s novel in Manhattan.

?This World of Tomorrow,? co-starring Kelli O?Hara, will come to Broadway next fall.

His Slackjaw column drew on his life, which included going blind and being locked up in a psychiatric ward. Two of his books were praised by Thomas Pynchon.

In Taika Waititi?s latest film, Jenna Ortega plays a futuristic android with a winsome outlook. Unfortunately, no emotional button goes unpushed.

Just in time for Halloween.

Magic lanterns, doppelgängers and unsettling events haunt ?The Shadow of the Object,? an intoxicatingly off-kilter novel.

The horror and dark fantasy writer is known for his gruesome imagination and lush, baroque prose. Here?s where to start.

Chad Harbach broke big with ?The Art of Fielding.? While set on the same campus, his long-awaited follow-up arrives at a different literary moment.

Thélyson Orélien, a celebrated novelist, used artificial intelligence while writing a breakout book, his publisher says.

To toast her new design book, ?Mesoamerican Modern,? Su Wu co-hosted a dinner at Mexico City?s Casa Möbius.

A jaunty new history recounts how the online encyclopedia turned the promise of collective creation into a global juggernaut.

For the first time, a young heroine from the toy juggernaut is at the center of a book for adults, written by a novelist who admires her pluck.

Richard Cooke?s book, ?The Last Best Place on the Internet? retells the history of Wikipedia with an emphasis on the human. Jennifer Szalai, a New York Times book critic, reviews the book.

The ?Bojack Horseman? designer Lisa Hanawalt bridles at glib therapists and is hot to trot for Mister Rogers in her new graphic memoir.

K-Ming Chang?s ?Needlemouth? blends body horror with feminist allegory in the story of three cousins grappling with their inherited trauma.

With its bracing studies of fiction?s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

Thanks to begrudging cooperation from the comedian and writer, a new biography is suitably kvetchy, if a little too long and a little too nice.

David McCloskey, a C.I.A. analyst turned spy novelist, has just released his fifth book, ?London Station.?

Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh?s nuanced take on the Netflix show?s villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.

Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.

In ?Redemption,? the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.

In ?Every Story Is a Love Story,? a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.

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