Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...

With his outstanding “The Hard Line,” Mark Greaney’s trademark style — his intense plotting emphasizing fast-and-furious action that taps into the changing political environment — continues to reshape ...

In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color. By Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson’s works include “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit” ...

It’s November 1977. Three men are flying in a private plane from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., for a gala event at Jimmy Carter’s White House. They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in ...

Be they sniper, pirate, orphan, anthropologist, labor unionist or craftswoman, the characters in this selection of new historical fiction strive to conceal painful secrets as readers journey from the ...

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In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...