In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and ...

Revelations about a relationship between the author and a girl who was 16 when they met shocked readers, but not scholars of ...

“Never judge a book by its contents,” quipped a wag in a porkpie hat as we both regarded the cover of an aging paperback ...

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

What makes THE SPOON (Crocodile Books, 40 pp., $14.95, ages 5 to 7), a newly translated picture book by the Argentine writer ...

The poet William Blake, the Romantic era’s ultimate Milton stan — he wrote an epic of his own with Milton as the hero — saw ...

By Amanda Hess Her own is called “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl book club. In their ...

This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle ...

Serious reading — sitting down in a quiet place, undisturbed, for a few hours with a text like “Walden” — takes students away ...

In her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie, a woman trying to define ...