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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A successful New York apparel executive, he switched gears in midlife and became a novelist, writing numerous best sellers, including five with James Patterson.

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.

In ?Girl on Girl,? Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.

Daniel Kehlmann wrote ?The Director? only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today.

Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow?s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.

Our columnist on the month?s best new releases.

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The British author, best known for her ?Old Filth? trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.

?The Queen of the Tambourine,? ?Old Filth? and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.

Craig Thompson?s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers ? both American-born and not ? who made up his community.

In ?Medicine River,? Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame ? and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner?s trilogy about the war animates an entire world ? from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.

In ?Strangers in the Land,? Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.

He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective.

Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes ? and failures ? in his new memoir, ?I Regret Almost Everything.?

He deconstructed what he called ?the colonial library?: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

In the unsentimental memoir ?The Golden Hour,? Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory.

Though she long felt a calling, Sister Monica Clare tried Hollywood first. Her book, and a visit, confirm the warmth ? and fragility ? of her new community.

A spare elegy; a weird journey.

The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.

The writer Suleika Jaouad explores what she found on the other side of her fears.

The reality TV star and author of the new memoir ?Accidentally on Purpose? on airplane snacks, tongue-scraping and the problem with women?s pants pockets.

Our columnist reviews this month?s releases.

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn?t perfect.

This off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s is detailed, digressive and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss ?The Safekeep,? Yael van der Wouden?s novel about a woman wrapped up in a historical drama and a forbidden romance.

As Tomie dePaola?s classic approaches a milestone birthday, Big Anthony is long overdue for a bit of sympathy.

With ?Blood and Politics,? he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat.

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

Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump?s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.

New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.

In her sprightly new biography, ?The Rebel Romanov,? Helen Rappaport introduces us to the enigmatic Julie of Saxe-Coburg.

Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. ?The Fate of the Day,? the second volume in his American Revolution trilogy, is out this month.

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