In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. William Grimes | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one. Alexandra Alter | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The milestone comes after a particularly turbulent period, when the publisher was put up for sale and bought by a private equity firm. Since then, investments have boosted morale and helped… Read More

A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel. Joseph Berger | NYTimes Books | Disc… Read More

This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?) Jennifer Schuessler | NYTimes Books |… Read More

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“City in Ruins” is the third novel in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He’s retiring in part to invest more time into political activism. B… Read More

Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye” Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Sloane Crosley’s apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels. Elisabeth Egan | NYTimes Books | Discl… Read More

Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” H… Read More

The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list? Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs a… Read More

Because we could all use a laugh. Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Cari Vander Yacht | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Geraldine DeRuiter’s “If You Can’t Take the Heat” expands on her viral, award-winning blog posts. Jennifer Reese | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy. Mateo Askaripour | NYTimes Boo… Read More

Using clever camera methods, a new photo book illuminates how honeybees see plants and flowers. William Atkins | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A vibrant cast narrates “North Woods,” Daniel Mason’s lyrical saga about the various inhabitants of a single home in Massachusetts, from the founding of this country to th… Read More

Some familiar San Franciscans turn up in the British countryside in “Mona of the Manor,” which the author vows is the 10th, and last, in the series: “That has a nice symme… Read More

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible’s first book. Francis Spufford | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Rachel Lyon’s novel “Fruit of the Dead” updates the Greek myth with a pharma tycoon who lures an aimless slacker to his private island. Molly Young | NYTimes Books | Disc… Read More

In “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” by Xochitl Gonzalez, two Latina women working a decade apart fight to break out in the New York art scene. Jean Hanff Korelitz | NYTimes Books… Read More

“Your Absence Is Darkness,” a novel by the Icelandic writer Jon Kalman Stefansson, is a complex history prompted by one man’s quest. Daniel Mason | NYTimes Books | Disclo… Read More

In “The Witch of New York,” Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism. Kate Tuttle | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Double Click,” the writer Carol Kino explores the pioneering glamour of a famous fashion-photography pair. Sarah Boxer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“The Hunter,” set in western Ireland, is a sequel to 2020’s “The Searcher.” Sadie Stein | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film. Judith Newman… Read More

The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag. Unkno… Read More

Memoirs from RuPaul and Christine Blasey Ford; Tana French’s latest crime thriller; new novels by Percival Everett and Téa Obreht — and more. The New York Times Books St… Read More

In “Normal Women,” Philippa Gregory gives us nine centuries of real-life heroines, murderers, boxers and brides. Eva Wolchover | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters. Tina Brown | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Decades after “Lives of the Monster Dogs” comes “King Nyx,” where the wife of a paranormal researcher explores why girls have gone missing from a remote island. Eli… Read More

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides. Noreen Malone | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan. V.V. Ganeshananthan | NYTime… Read More

For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.” Robert… Read More

A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes’s richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel “In Ascension.” Sophie Mackintosh | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Amitava Kumar’s novel links a professor who lived through a nation’s tribulations and his daughter, an Atlanta journalist, before and after the pandemic. Thrity Umrigar | NYTim… Read More

“I’ve been prank-calling Justin Torres for like two decades,” says the poet and performer, whose new book is called “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse… Read More

The Oscar-nominated film is based on a 1992 book by the prolific Scotsman Alasdair Gray. Beloved by writers, “that’s not the same as being widely read,” says one of them… Read More

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture. Fintan O’Toole | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis. Deirdre Mask | N… Read More

As a scholar, Laurence Ralph specialized in youth violence. Then a relative was killed. “Sito” tells the story. Gary Younge | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A roundup of international fiction from Congo, Sweden, Bolivia and India. Anderson Tepper | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards. Abdi Latif Dahir | NYTimes B… Read More

In “The Other Profile,” a struggling grad school dropout starts to work for, and then becomes obsessed with and consumed by, a semi-famous content creator. Lovia Gyarkye | NYTi… Read More

“Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park’s second novel, is a heady mix of true history and high-flying fiction. Lauren Christensen | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her powerful new memoir, the author examines a life composed of conflicting identities — and fierce, contradictory desires. Charles Finch | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years i… Read More

Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.” Tochi Onyebuchi | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be. Amal El-Mohtar | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States. David Nasaw | NYTim… Read More

From England and France to the deepest Arctic and northern China, these stories will transport you. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her new novel, “Leaving,” Roxana Robinson reunites a former couple. One of them is divorced; the other is still married. What now? Amity Gaige | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The actor reads Michael Cunningham’s “Day,” a novel that visits a husband, wife and brother on the same day in April over three years. Lauren LeBlanc | NYTimes Books | Di… Read More

“Dear Sister” and “My Side of the River” tell vastly different stories about ordinary people looking back on extraordinary circumstances. Julia Scheeres | NYTimes B… Read More

“I love the inherent optimism and boldness” in young adult fiction, says the novelist, best known for reimagining classic fairy tales. Her new book is the contemporary rom-com … Read More

The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment. Elisa Gabbert | N… Read More

In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and politi… Read More

In Margot Livesey’s new novel, “The Road From Belhaven,” a 19th-century farm girl’s life and maturity are complicated by her uncontrollable visions of accident and d… Read More

Try this short quiz to see how many fictional disasters you remember from your reading. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In his new novel, “Trondheim,” the author Cormac James explores the terrible dread and peculiar quality of watching over a loved one in the hospital. Katie Kitamura | NYTimes B… Read More

“Ordinary Human Failings,” a new novel by the Irish writer Megan Nolan, is a fierce and relentless account of characters trapped by circumstance and tragedy. Harriet Lane | NYT… Read More

In her debut novel, “Redwood Court,” DéLana R.A. Dameron begins with an innocuous question: “What am I made of?” Charmaine Wilkerson | NYTimes Books | Disclo… Read More

In Rebecca K Reilly’s book, “Greta & Valdin,” two 20-something siblings navigate love, identity and growing up while wading through the maelstrom of contemporary life… Read More

The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Reeves Wiedeman | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home. Beatriz Williams | NYTimes Books | Disclosu… Read More

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London. Lizzie Pook | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence. Stephen Marche | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Leo Vardiashvili’s first novel, “Hard by a Great Forest,” a young man begins a fraught quest in the country he once fled. Zain Khalid | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her second novel, “Come and Get It,” Kiley Reid uses chatty college students to make substantive statements about consumerism. Julia May Jonas | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Deborah Jowitt’s “Errand Into the Maze” revels in the artistry of the dance legend, while downplaying the messy choices in her marathon career. Alexandra Jacobs | NYTimes… Read More

An editor recommends an Irish novel about a banker in trouble and a Swiss novel about schoolgirl obsession. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In her second novel, “Good Material,” Dolly Alderton adds her own flair to the classic rom-com. Katie J. M. Baker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Subculture Vulture,” the comedian Moshe Kasher explores the six wildly differing communities that made him who he is, for better or worse. Madison Malone Kircher | NYTimes… Read More

“You’ve got to know when you’re onto a good thing,” says the prolific historian, British TV personality and author of “Wolves of Winter,” the second nove… Read More

The setting of “The Fury,” the new novel by Alex Michaelides, is stunning. Its plot? Not so much. Sarah Lyall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Andrew X. Pham’s first novel, “Twilight Territory,” imagines an unlikely romance during a nation’s fight for independence. Violet Kupersmith | NYTimes Books | Discl… Read More

“Last Acts,” by Alexander Sammartino, is a satire of contemporary America set at a firearms shop in Phoenix. Dan Chaon | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “Madness,” the journalist Antonia Hylton explores the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, and America’s continuing failure to care for Black minds. Linda Villarosa… Read More

“The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels,” a modern take on the epistolary novel, is hard to put down. Sarah Lyall | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The titles of more than a dozen popular books are concealed within a short fictional passage and are just waiting to be discovered. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In “The Showman,” the journalist Simon Shuster trails the entertainer-turned-wartime president as he rallies the world for support. David Kortava | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Sharon Cameron, the author of “Artifice” and other young adult novels, recommends some of her favorite Y.A. historical fiction. Sharon Cameron | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

An editor recommends the literary version of nesting dolls. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht bring David Auburn’s nostalgic play about an unlikely friendship straight to your ears. Rhoda Feng | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder. Gregory Cowles | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“That you could collaborate with others and go out for boba tea was quite revelatory,” says the author of “The Expatriates,” which Nicole Kidman has produced (and st… Read More

Victor Klemperer considered himself a German above all else. His diaries of life in the Third Reich chronicle his painful awakening to violent antisemitism. Casey Schwartz | NYTimes Books… Read More

Test your memory with this short quiz featuring popular and award-winning books. J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Jessica Roy’s “American Girls” traces the divergent fates of two sisters through a saga of poverty, misogyny, abuse and terrorism. Seyward Darby | NYTimes Books | Disclos… Read More

In the midst of chaos, the characters in these books find their own ways to metabolize real-life tragedy. Alida Becker | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

The anthology “Burn Man” selects from decades of Mark Anthony Jarman’s work, bringing the writer’s lush and searing stories to new readers. Lincoln Michel | NYTimes… Read More

An experiment in digital disengagement prompts Kyle Chayka to consider how technology has narrowed our choices and dulled the culture. Alexandra Jacobs | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

Not all books tell readers what to call the main character. An editor recommends two that don’t. Unknown Author | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

In Temim Fruchter’s debut, “City of Laughter,” a grieving daughter dives into her ancestors’ hidden pasts to find closure and meaning in her own life. Lauren LeBlan… Read More

The audiobook might be less, well, useful than it is entertainingly honest, unfiltered and even bizarre. Judith Newman | NYTimes Books | Disclosure Read More

“Invisible Man” “made me feel seen and heard,” the rapper-actor says. “I can return the favor.” His new book, “And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving… Read More