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 ...

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

A 2021 novel by the South Korean writer Han Kang, “We Do Not Part” is now being published in English for the first time in a ...

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

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

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

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

In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...