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

In “Undivided,” the political scientist Hahrie Han follows members of a mostly white congregation that resolved to fight bias ...

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

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

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

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

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life ...

A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a daring 1939 journey to Shanghai provide egress for any taste ...

In “Defectors,” the journalist Paola Ramos interviews MAGA supporters, Proud Boys and others to investigate a constituency ...

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] ...

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

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