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

The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in ...

Parker was 35 when she wrote that. Old age seemed to come on earlier back in the day. I’m thinking especially of poor Edward ...

Jon Klassen, a Caldecott medalist, is the author-illustrator of the picture books “I Want My Hat Back,” “This Is Not My Hat” ...

Mr. Carter said his spiritual rebirth was an “evolutionary thing” rather than “a flash of light or a sudden vision of God ...

As the year winds down, the last of the big buzzy films have hit the screen — and these five were based largely on memoirs ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

In “You’ll Never Believe Me,” Kari Ferrell details going from internet notoriety to self-knowledge in a captivating, sharp ...

Archivists from the Kinsey Institute are helping the family of the sex therapist Ruth Westheimer with a common quandary: How ...

“The Shooting Party” opens on an English country manor, with a sprawling cast of characters and death on the mantel. But ...

The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts ...

The chance of being a crime victim in the subway is remote. But riders feel far more at risk than they do driving on New York ...