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

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

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

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

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

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

In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It ...

In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...

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

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 ...

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