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 2023?s sexiest, swooniest reads.

Finding a book you?ll love can be daunting. Let us help.

The writer Dolly Alderton has long had an avid following in her native England, but with her best-selling comic novel ?Good Material? she?s become a trans-Atlantic success.

The decision by the free expression group came after intense criticism of its response to the war in Gaza. A wave of participants had pulled out of the festival in protest.

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider?s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays are almost reflexively skeptical. Here?s where to start.

Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III?s remains. Now, she?s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat?s ?Made in Asian America? spotlights young people who defy erasure and make their own history.

A historian and sociologist of science re-examines the ?posture panic? of the last century. You?ll want to sit down for this.

The actress Jodie Comer recasts her Tony-winning turn in Suzie Miller?s hit play ?Prima Facie? for a new novelization.

This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald?s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.

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She devoted her life to showing us how and why.

?We are a literary city?: Will Evans started saying it in 2013, when he started the publisher Deep Vellum. Alongside the bookstore Wild Detectives and others, they?ve put Dallas on the literary map.

The former N.F.L. player has been living with A.L.S. for more than a decade. Sharing ?the most lacerating and vulnerable times? in ?A Life Impossible? was worth the physical and emotional toll, he says.

Our crime columnist on mysteries by Catherine Mack, Katrina Carrasco, Marcia Muller and K.C. Constantine.

In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.

?Finish What We Started,? by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement?s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.

Alana S. Portero?s debut, ?Bad Habit,? follows one woman?s coming-of-age in a blue-collar Madrid neighborhood.

Our romance columnist recommends three terrific new books, but the one she loves most is Cat Sebastian?s ?You Should Be So Lucky.?

In ?Rebel Girl,? the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life ? the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.

As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud?s most famous cases posed as many questions as it answered.

?Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,? the author?s new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.

Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare?s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.

In ?The Whole Staggering Mystery,? Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent?s past, and finds more than she bargained for.

?Lucky? features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.

The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization?s response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.

The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books.

How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Creators will spotlight Blondie in the comic strip, as she brings someone on board for her catering business.

In ?The Rulebreaker,? Susan Page pays tribute to a pioneering journalist who survived being both a punchline and an icon.

Prison, pregnancies and other operatic turns propel Caroline Leavitt?s latest book, ?Days of Wonder.?

Focusing on disaster hasn?t changed the planet?s trajectory. Will a more upbeat approach show a way forward?

Slim and precious, ?Somehow: Thoughts on Love? doesn?t measure up to her best nonfiction.

Justin Taylor?s novel ?Reboot? examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory.

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.

In ?The Paris Novel,? Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.

In ?Habsburgs on the Rio Grande,? Raymond Jonas?s story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy battles of the Cold War.

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