In “Talk,” Alison Wood Brooks mines years of data to optimize your conversations.

During the past 50 years, the work of the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto has found its way to readers like water ...

In a new memoir, Hanif Kureishi reflects on a life transformed since he lost the use of his arms and legs.

Entertaining readers for the past fifty years, Stephen King has written a ton of iconic novels that still hold up to this day ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century ...

Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Good Dirt” weaves together grief, suspense and the story of a jar made by an enslaved potter ...

Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.

In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.

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William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

This is the third installment of the much-loved Bridget Jones' Diaries books and follows her as she adjusts to life as a ...