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.

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Lerner?s new novel, a cerebral exploration of technology, family, truth and existence.

In these books, an emperor, an officer and an orphan look for anything that resembles a clear victory in the fog of war.

In his chatty, compulsively readable first book for adults, Mac Barnett champions his career choice and urges our culture to hold kids in higher esteem.

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

The best-selling author Kelly Yang recommends mysteries set in Tinseltown, from the down and dirty to the deliciously dishy.

Our columnist says Jordan Harper?s ?A Violent Masterpiece? is just that: a violent masterpiece.

In ?Israel: What Went Wrong?,? Omer Bartov charts how a nation founded in the wake of trauma abandoned the emancipatory impulse of its origins.

In a host of books and articles as a political scientist, he attacked received ideas on the battle of the sexes, the usefulness of high school math and other subjects.

In ?The Palm House,? Gwendoline Riley offers understated yet cleareyed observations of human behavior ? this time about middle-aged Londoners struggling to stay relevant.

?How It Feels to Be Alive,? by Megan O?Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.

In Sophie Mackintosh?s novel ?Permanence,? cheating couples find themselves in an alternate world free of complication ? and missing the mess.

A new biography of Jan Morris shows why the journalist, world traveler, historian and essayist was far more than a trailblazer.

The autobiographical novella, first published 50 years ago, arguably created a new type of guy: the literary fly fisherman.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin?s precise and devastating memoir chronicles the 328 days her son was held hostage in Gaza, and what came after.

In ?This Vast Enterprise,? Craig Fehrman refreshes a familiar story with a rich chorus of voices.

In ?How to Be a Dissident,? Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of today.

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