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

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 ...

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

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

"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." ...

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

How can silence teach us more than any text, and offer us a common space in an ever more divided and despairing world? Pico ...

Good writing requires four things: precision, freedom, respect and love. In this political climate, these qualities are ...

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

Amazon's Best Books of the Year list is here, and what underpins the Top 10 list isn't a type but a topic. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morn ...

Donald Trump's nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as Defense Secretary is generating blowback and confusion ...