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.

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In a host of books and articles, he attacked conventional ideas on subjects including the battle of the sexes and the usefulness of high school math.

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.

The British author Gwendoline Riley may be as emotionally guarded as the women in her novels, which have caught on in America.

The author of ?A Wolf Called Wander? recommends titles old and new, fantastical and true, that celebrate the natural world.

Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote ?Famesick,? a new memoir, she?s taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.

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Both authors share uncanny similarities of upbringing. But their culinary paths diverged sharply.

Julia Langbein?s novel considers the legions of women whose lives have been forever marred by compromising early relationships.

The U.S. poet laureate?s new book, ?Transient Worlds,? collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be translated.

Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.

Her 1979 memoir, ?I?m Dancing as Fast as I Can,? which also became a movie, detailed years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.

Mark Rosenblatt?s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children?s book author, draws from Dahl?s comments over the years.

In a new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue that Elon Musk?s disruptive approach to business is transforming both politics and the economy.

In ?Rasputin,? the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina?s mystic adviser.

Nicholas Enrich?s tell-all memoir, ?Into the Wood Chipper,? has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.

This gripping historical fiction will transport you to the doomed ship and back to land.

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