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 ...

For the 10th anniversary of NYT Cooking, we’ve collected recipes that racked up five-star ratings, topped our charts and went ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jollof rice, chile crisp fettuccine Alfredo, sheet-pan gnocchi and plenty more meatless marvels.