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

It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She ...

Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the ...

What's one thing each team in the division can be encouraged by? And who has the upper hand when Washington and Philly meet ...

Those who have played in Chicago and Green Bay have done so for lots of reasons, but most say joining the enemy felt strange.

Hoping to catch the eye of the boy she likes, 13-year-old Deecie Jeffries sneaks out of the house in Austin, Texas, in 1987 ...

In his novel “States of Emergency,” Chris Knapp doesn’t just tighten the distance between our inner lives and the world ...

An event at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont celebrated an upcoming book about Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, two writers who documented ...

The anti-corruption campaigner's harrowing book was published posthumously after his death in a remote Arctic prison ...

"It's so emotional for me to be able to think that this kid who has nothing and is living in very compromised circumstances, would get any kind of escape from my novel." ...

Patrick Radden Keefe tells Esther McCarthy how he was persuaded to convert his factual account into a streaming drama ...

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...