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

In a vibrant collection of “essays on the future that never was,” Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the ...

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 ...

Gallant is the genius absurdist of the 20th century. Conditions were overripe for absurdism. Born in Montreal, Gallant was ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s ...

His new novel is titled after Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” he says, “given the theme of incomprehension between generations ...

By The New York Times Books Staff Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does. By J. D. Biersdorfer Our columnist ...

By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

By The New York Times Books Staff The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, “Aflame,” about his stays at a California monastery. Gay Talese Keeps Notes, Especially on Everyone’s ...