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.

She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.

Patricia Highsmith?s classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What?s not to love?

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, ?The Yellow Bus,? took him in a different direction ? one that required time, patience and toothpicks.

?Tree. Table. Book? and ?Not Nothing? feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories.

Our columnist reviews July?s horror releases.

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

?It?s nice to work with faculty without that inbuilt prejudice against genre,? says the author of ?I Was a Teenage Slasher.? ?Or, I?m a little bit tall, so it?s tricky to look down your nose at me.?

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper?s and later his own Lapham?s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

She was, she said, unable to cook a basic meal into her mid-20s. But she went on to a successful career as a restaurateur and an authority on Asian cuisine.

The author of humorous short stories finds emotional connections in tales that engage with tech. But he?s more interested in the ties between humans.

?The Secret Lives of Numbers,? by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, highlights overlooked contributions to the field by ancient thinkers, non-Westerners and women.

The group worked for decades to build the profile of the genre and its writers. Now romance fiction is booming ? but the R.W.A. has filed for bankruptcy. What happened?

Colorful primers, inspirational biographies and books by former champions will get kids excited for the Paris Games ? and teach valuable lessons along the way.

In ?A Hunger to Kill,? the former homicide detective Kim Mager recalls a career-defining investigation.

Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander?s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.

He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.

Camila Sosa Villada, an Argentine transgender author, first inhabited a female voice in stories she wrote as a child. Now her novels are translated in more than 20 languages and being adapted for the screen.

Bibliophiles and film fans leafed through hundreds of books that once belonged to the eminent editor Robert Gottlieb.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio?s fiction debut, ?Catalina,? brings readers into the life and struggles of a blue-collar brainiac from Ecuador.

A true-crime case that could only happen in Florida is at the heart of Mikita Brottman?s ?Guilty Creatures.?

In the memoir ?Desperately Seeking Something,? Susan Seidelman?s life is as full of twists, charm and happy endings as one of her iconic movies.

The aggrieved wife who narrates Sarah Manguso?s novel ?Liars? may or may not be a reliable source about her monster of a husband.

In ?The Quiet Damage,? Jesselyn Cook traces the effects of the conspiracy theory on the spouses, children and siblings of believers.

The first in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our ?Best Books of the 21st Century? list.

The simple pleasures keep coming in this keenly observed collection by the Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart.

A new book by Susannah Gibson spotlights the 18th-century Bluestockings, who aspired to have their writings and ideas accorded the same respect as men?s.

As a comic book series to honor the Turtles? 40th anniversary debuts, here?s a look back at their milestones.

Our crime columnist on four new novels.

Harry Crews, Barry Hannah and Larry Brown were part of a Southern writers? movement that centered dissidents and outsiders. They?re still worth reading.

Elizabeth Stromme?s noir about a writer for hire; Karen Tei Yamashita?s magic realist dystopia.

A partial lexicon of modern Republicanism.

In ?Autocracy, Inc.,? the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes account of the financial institutions and trade deals that have helped spread tyranny across the world.

Clare Pollard?s novel ?The Modern Fairies? reanimates 25 classic tales through a contemporary lens.

Immerse yourself in tales of Machiavellian statecraft, Depression-era scandal and emotional turmoil on an R.A.F. air base.

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