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

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

An exciting book with no words, a murder mystery, an author mocking their own pain and a poetic masterpiece highlight this ...

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

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 ...

Batuman’s endless appreciation and ardor for her subjects (literature, yes, along with transcultural irony and ungenerous ...

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

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

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