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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Today, The New York Times Magazine published one of the most ambitious stories in its long history — an account of a Russian ...