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 ...

Two reports from advocacy groups show that book banning continues at higher rates than before the pandemic. Newly implemented ...

You know something is wrong in America when beloved schoolteachers and librarians become the target of hate groups.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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