In “You’ve Been Played,” a self-identified gamer warns against the dangers of imposing artificial incentives on all aspects of our lives.
Three siblings reunite in Amanda Svensson’s turbulent novel “A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding.”
In “Less Is More,” the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic novel, the author’s writer protagonist, now over 50 and in need of cash, takes to the road once again.
Andy Campbell examines extremism in the U.S. through a history of an ascendant far-right group.
In “The Book of Goose,” a literary hoax devised by two teenagers closes the distance between fiction and reality.
A copy editor recounts his obsession with perfection.
In “The Complicities,” Stacey D’Erasmo introduces a woman who is rebuilding her life in the aftermath of her ex’s financial wrongdoings.
The novelist discusses his Pulitzer-winning comedy about the travels and travails of a heartbroken writer, and William Finnegan talks about surfing.
A selection of books published this week.
A civil rights advocate investigates.
The kids are back in their classrooms — but are they OK? These new titles can provide reassurance, advice and solidarity.
In “Lucy by the Sea,” Elizabeth Strout relocates a formerly married couple from Manhattan to Maine at the peak of the Covid pandemic.
Dan Gemeinhart’s latest book, “The Midnight Children,” is light compared with “The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise,” but weighty nonetheless.
“Moonflower,” inspired by the author Kacen Callender’s own struggles, is about helping young people to heal.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Behind the best-selling novelist Ilona Andrews are two people who live, work, lift weights and take care of their pets under the same roof.
New international fiction from Guadeloupe, the Canary Islands, Tahiti and Basque Country.
In Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel, “Lungfish,” a young family maroons itself on a deserted island where sustenance is whatever you can get your hands on.
“Luckily,” says the novelist and story writer, whose new book is the collection “Natural History,” “the kind librarian at the local Bookmobile let us take any books we could reach (I was ridiculously tall).”
In Deanna Raybourn’s “Killers of a Certain Age,” four female assassins, celebrating their retirement after 40-year careers, discover they’ve been marked for death.
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