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

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.

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

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 ...

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

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” ...

I went to the Alps in August because my son — a New York City third grader obsessed with baseball, projectiles and YouTube — ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Two of our recommended books this week put rock music front and center: Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of the band R.E.M., and ...

In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street. As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of ...