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 ...

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

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

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

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

Orhan Pamuk’s 2009 novel “The Museum of Innocence,” takes place in the 1970s and 1980s and is about a wealthy man’s intense ...

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

Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was ...

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

Emily Weinstein, Melissa Clark and Eric Kim will discuss the new cookbook, recipe writing, their go-to meals and tips for ...