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

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

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

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

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

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

Still, the central driver of suspense remains the author’s aesthetic gamble, restricting himself across 400 pages to a single ...

People are interested in power,” Caro says. “This is a particular kind of power. Robert Moses’ power was unchecked power. We ...

In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an ...

A 1966 novel captures a publishing world full of chronic malcontents, strategic lunches and ideas that mattered.

The legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer is only four years younger than Radish. Just a bit too young to be claimed by the war, ...

For decades, the French author and filmmaker Virginie Despentes has courted a precious, overlooked constituency: “the old ...