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

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will ...

Parents in Maryland said a school board’s refusal to notify them and to excuse their children from discussions of the ...

How to Listen. For decades, starting in 1991 after his house in Santa Barbara burned to the ground, the travel writer and ...

His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

The Thich Nhat Hanh classic is celebrating its 50th year in circulation. It also taught me to be OK with life’s uncertainties ...

I have never engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.