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 ?Chosen Land,? Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.

In ?Days of Love and Rage,? Anand Gopal creates an indelible portrait of revolution and civil war in Syria.

Our columnist on the month?s best new books.

Waiting for readers of Diana Gabaldon?s series to see the episode is ?exciting and nerve-racking,? says its star, who wrote five books during its 12-year run.

The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the ?Call Her Daddy? podcast.

Cynthia D?Aprix Sweeney?s new novel, ?Lake Effect,? is the latest in a specific contemporary subgenre: ?Four Adult Siblings Reconvene to Rehash Their Privileged but Fraught Adolescence.?

In ?Reproductive Wrongs,? the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.

A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue.

Ivana Sajko?s novel ?Every Time We Say Goodbye? explores personal and political crises in lengthy, lyrical sentences.

For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville?s novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.

In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source material.

In ?Muv,? the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch.

In Vigdis Hjorth?s novel ?Repetition,? a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises.

In ?The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts,? a therapist?s home turns into a nightmare manifestation of her sadness and grief.

?Field Notes From an Extinction,? by Eoghan Walls, follows a naturalist who wants to study birds but ends up with a much harder task.

Álvaro Enrigue?s new novel, ?Now I Surrender,? weaves past and present in a baroque anti-Western set in contested borderlands.

?Backstitch,? a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.

In ?El Paso,? Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.

In M.L. Stedman?s new novel, ?A Far-Flung Life,? the beauty and breadth of her setting stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.

Our columnist on the month?s best new mysteries.

Jesse Appell left everything behind to pursue a comedy career in China, where Western-style club comedy was just finding its footing.

Funny, furious and profane, ?You With the Sad Eyes? finds the TV star facing childhood trauma and reflecting on the limits imposed by illness.

In Maria Stepanova?s novel ?The Disappearing Act,? an accidental stopover in a foreign town leads to personal change.

James Cahill?s ?The Violet Hour? contrasts the artifice of blue-chip modern art with the messy personal lives of the people who create and consume it.

These 13 bloodthirsty tales will keep you up at night with clever thrills and heart-pounding action.

Emily Brontë?s classic Gothic romance is the basis for a new movie. It?s also more bonkers than you remember.

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones?s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.

?A World Appears? explores what makes you you.

Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume biography and more.

Twelve recommendations for young fans of Mo Willems.

For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people?s stories. Now, in ?The Golden Boy,? she?s finally telling one of her own.

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

She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.

A magnetic personality, she reinvented herself twice, bringing the same spirit to investigating child abuse and communing with dogs that she did to writing poetry.

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