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

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 ...

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

There are few pleasures as delicious as losing yourself in a great fantasy book. Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, lists a few of her favorite fantasy books.

Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Keefe’s narrative history, which was No. 19 on our list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, has now been adapted into ...

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

Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

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