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

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

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

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

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

“The Lady of the Mine,” by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia’s 2014 invasion. Boris Fishman’s new novel, “The ...

These include Jacquelyne Jackson, the pioneering Black sociologist, and Maggie Kuhn, the charismatic founder of the advocacy ...

In Adam Haslett’s “Mothers and Sons,” crisis reconnects an immigration attorney and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

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

In her lively debut novel, “How to Sleep at Night,” Elizabeth Harris measures what happens when the Republican half of a gay ...

By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...