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

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

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

Assouline has made its name publishing tomes that sell for $1,000 or more. But that’s just the beginning of this family-run ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Her own is among the anonymous tales included in “Want,” a new collection she has edited: “It only felt right, given I was ...

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine. By Gilbert Cruz In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of ...