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

The season’s most anticipated titles include new fiction from Sally Rooney, Richard Powers, Jean Hanff Korelitz and more, ...

Batuman’s endless appreciation and ardor for her subjects (literature, yes, along with transcultural irony and ungenerous ...

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

Iris Apfel, Diane Keaton and Henri Bendel are just some of the style icons featured in the pages of this season’s most ...

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes ...

In “Lucky Loser,” two investigative reporters illuminate the financial chicanery and media excesses that gave us the 45th ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them ...

By Laura Miller 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 ...

Russia did not become a liberal democracy, and nor did a number of its former satrapies. Few people have had more opportunity ...

Pleasantly surprised on the subway, an invisible helper appears and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...

39D. It’s funny how words on a page from childhood can settle in one’s mind for decades. The [Plant also known as coffeeweed] ...