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

Children’s book publishers were invited to submit up to 10 picture books published this year in the United States. The judges ...

Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and ...

In Julie Flett’s “Let’s Go! haw êkwa!” and Kirsten Cappy and Yaya Gentille’s “Kende! Kende! Kende!” going is just the ...

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

Peter Brown’s obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including “The Wild ...

Bookstores say customers love “Blind Date With a Book,” which masks a book’s real cover and lets readers discover what’s ...

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

Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are melancholy, complex and occasionally scary.

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

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller ... In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture ...