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 a Pulitzer-winning book, ?The Radicalism of the American Revolution,? he wrote that the colonists rose up against an entire worldview, not just against taxation.

In his memoir, Simon Paré-Poupart recounts the highs and lows of hauling trash for more than 20 years.

His five-volume ?Children of Crisis? series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

In this satisfyingly old-school novel, an artist tries to find his place, and hold onto his spark, in a world that values fads and flash.

He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.

The short story, which is set during World War I, is believed to have been printed for the first time on Friday. The story is thought to have been written no earlier than July 1918.

The Danish writer Linea Maja Ernst?s debut novel, ?Waist Deep,? a hit in Europe, explores the flirtations and frustrations within a millennial friendship circle.

Deb Olin Unferth?s new novel is part cosmic comedy and part dirge for our dying world.

Summer?s here. It?s hot. Let these books deliver some chills.

From doppelgängers to dark academia, the Book Review editors share some of their most-anticipated titles.

In ?The Man Who Stole the Gods,? Matthew Campbell recounts how cultural artifacts were pillaged in Cambodia.

Following his ?Less? books with ?Villa Coco,? Andrew Sean Greer drops an aimless postgraduate into a glamorous, romantic and secret-laden setting.

As the gentle giant who just wanted to live his best life turns 90, Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson?s classic fable is as apt as ever.

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

He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned ? and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author?s most famous works.

The story at the heart of ?Checkmate? is a good one, but Ben Mezrich has hustled it into print too quickly.

Some will have you mentally arranging flowers for your own happy day. Others provide the vicarious thrill of watching it all burn.

Caissie Levy was Broadway?s first Elsa. She starred in ?Hair? and ?Ghost.? And now, for ?Ragtime,? she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.

As presented in Andrea Wulf?s new biography, ?The Traveler,? George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.

Carley Fortune left a hard-won journalism job to give fiction a shot. Five best-sellers later, a series based on her debut is about to stream.

The form known as ekphrasis ? or poetry about art ? has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

In ?The Wreck of the Mentor,? the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.

The year is nearly halfway over. Here?s what we?ve been listening to.

The former first lady?s new book reflects an insular White House where loyalty was prized and President Joseph R. Biden Jr.?s feelings were prioritized over health concerns.

Josh Weil?s new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.

Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, ?Land? is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland?s long struggle against British rule.

In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.

?The Fire Agent,? by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.

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