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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.

Here are six new volumes that might make your holiday shopping list.

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 ...

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 ...