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 ...

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

Here are six new volumes that might make your holiday shopping list.

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 “Prospero’s Daughter” and other novels, she explored the legacy of colonialism in her native Trinidad and the struggle for ...

John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of ...

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

Roberts’ new book, “Dawn’s Early Light,” has a foreword written by the author’s friend, Vice President-elect JD Vance. Its ...

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

Amanda Jones, who will attend a gala on Monday at the New York Public Library, lobbied against restrictions on libraries — ...

As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew.