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

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

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.

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

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 ...

In “The White Ladder,” the British writer Daniel Light explores the heroes, villains and dramas of early mountaineering.

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

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

Hoping to catch the eye of the boy she likes, 13-year-old Deecie Jeffries sneaks out of the house in Austin, Texas, in 1987 ...

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