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 her entrancing, disturbing ?Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,? Barbara Demick traces the wildly divergent paths of twins born in China under the one-child rule.

Abandoned by both her mother and a really bad ex, the 25-year-old narrator of ?Gingko Season? avoids her own traumas by focusing on grand historical ones.

In the novel ?Consider Yourself Kissed,? a wife and mother faces many of the same hurdles in 2016 that women did decades ago.

In his latest novel, ?The Living and the Rest,? José Eduardo Agualusa takes readers to a literary festival in Africa where novelists? characters come to life.

His Holocaust novel ?King of the Jews? was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University.

The lauded cartoonist talks about the process behind her autobiographical new graphic novel, ?Spent.?

Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from ?The Lord of the Rings.?

In ?Murder in the Dollhouse,? Rich Cohen tells the story of Jennifer Dulos ? and our queasy fascination.

You don?t need to be on the sand to enjoy these novels. You just need a certain willingness to be swiftly transported.

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a wayward wash of color.

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

Gilbert Cruz, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, previews four books we?re anticipating this summer.

Looking for some fictional murder and mayhem? Our columnist is keeping track of the best crime novels of 2025.

?My favorite novel of all time? is an antidote to ?Of Mice and Men,? he promises. His new book, ?Anima Rising,? is a playful visit to 1911 Vienna.

Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary Shteyngart channels a 10-year-old. Plus queer vampires, a professor in hell and an actress?s revenge.

How did streetwear become high fashion? Why are there so many serial killers in the Pacific Northwest? Prize-winning writers tackle these questions, while memoirists consider celibacy, spycraft and Erica Jong.

?This World of Tomorrow,? based on the actor?s 2017 short story collection, is scheduled to begin performances in October at the Shed.

In Chris Pavone?s new novel, ?The Doorman,? the real world closes in on residents of a luxury apartment building.

In ?Whack Job,? Rachel McCarthy James finds a connection between self-reliance and brutality. And for the record, she has questions about Lizzie Borden.

In the novel ?Speak to Me of Home,? three generations of women in one family grapple with their identities.

The romance author Ashley Poston recommends books bursting with quaint charm, sizzling banter and plenty of heart.

Banu Mushtaq?s ?Heart Lamp,? translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it?s won the major award for translated fiction.

A neoconservative who fervidly opposed Communism and the fundamentalist regime in Iran, he wrote many books and articles, some of whose theories were later discredited.

In ?Bear Witness,? Ross Halperin tells the story of two men who went from idealists to pragmatists.

Alison Bechdel?s graphic novel, ?Spent,? is a domestic comedy about ethical consumption under capitalism.

Madeleine Thien?s time-warping historical novel ?The Book of Records? collapses centuries and geographies in an ambitious family saga.

First published in 1972, Rosalyn Drexler?s ?To Smithereens? throws two vivid subcultures ? and two unlikely lovers ? into the ring.

Now in its 25th year, The Dresden Files and its author have survived the darkness, fictional and otherwise.

Lauren Christensen, an editor at the New York Times Book Review, recommends four of her favorite audiobooks.

The beloved humor columnist looks back on a long career of wit and wisdom in a new memoir.

Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.

Our critic on the month?s best releases.

In the searing ?Dirty Kitchen,? Jill Damatac tells the story of a fight for survival and culture in America.

In ?Things in Nature Merely Grow,? the novelist Yiyun Li endures the aftermath of unthinkable loss.

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