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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Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, Alison Espach?s novel comes out in paperback this week. It?s a book she didn?t want to write.

The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.

Sarai Walker?s ?Furious Violet? is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre ? and the world ? typically overlooks.

An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.

Our columnist on the month?s best new books.

In ?The Renoir Girls,? the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d?Anvers family.

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.

It?s time for our annual midyear check-in on the books that we can?t stop thinking about.

The picture books ?Bored? and ?Endless Afternoons? are odes to the joy of having nothing to do.

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

Pliny?s ?Natural History? is meant for ?skimming and skipping,? she says. Her own new (one-volume) road-trip novel is ?Beginning Middle End.?

There?s nothing like hearing a famous person?s life story in their own, instantly recognizable voice.

Ellie Gottheimer and Larra Mullin, who met when their fathers were in Congress, make a case for bipartisanship in a picture book about dogs working together.

In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a ?shadow tradition? of anti-egalitarians who fought against America?s founding ideals.

The message in ?The Surrendered Wife,? the best-selling book by Laura Doyle, was provocative. Many women credit it with saving their marriages.

Matthew Quick?s memoir takes the form of a letter to his father as dementia slowly dismantles the man who once terrified him.

Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.

Blending autobiography with meditations on craft, ?Unsayable? feels destined for the graduation gift bag.

In ?The Frenchmen,? Emily Eakin traces the rise and fall of postmodernist philosophy, and the surprising ways its influence lingers.

For decades, filmmakers have been borrowing plot lines and metaphors from Homer?s epic for adventures set in different eras and realities.

In ?The Mortons,? a young hit woman ? a prodigy at killing ? is tested by inherited secrets and her own morality.

A new compendium of Roberta Gregory?s comics does away with delicacy in the name of feminism.

The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.

The market for the epic poem is as crowded as a certain Ithacan palace, and publishers have had to get crafty to attract readers to their editions.

A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States.

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