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

The novel “A Calamity of Noble Houses” tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

In Nnedi Okorafor’s new novel, “Death of the Author,” a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art ...

In John Dufresne’s new book, “My Darling Boy,” a retired journalist races to rescue his son from the painful grip of opioids.

In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and ...

The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar’s Gothic thriller “Vantage Point” try desperately to outrun the calamity that ...

Cafe Kestrel in Brooklyn and Cocina Consuelo in Harlem can restore the spirit with warm service, cheery surroundings and deeply satisfying food.

In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing innovation, and the woman who fought for it. By Cindi Leive Grady Hendrix’s ...

Rosie Lachlan, the possibly unhinged main character of Collins’s CROSS MY HEART (Atria, 309 pp., $28.99), has two vexing ...

“I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone,” said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine. By Elisabeth Egan and Alexandra Alter Try ...

The setting is Potsdam, N.Y. The gruff men are Danny and Kyle McCray, an estranged father and son who’ve been reunited by a ...