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Two eerie story collections depict the mundanity of human suffering.
Lynne Tillman’s taut memoir of caring for an aging parent runs an emotional gamut.
Johanna Mo’s new novel, “The Shadow Lily,” is a solid police procedural that brims with twists, turns and surprising revelations.
In “Three Assassins,” the Japanese author’s latest thriller to be translated into English, a corporate assassin isn’t far from a corporate automaton.
In “Diary of a Void,” Emi Yagi unravels the limitless ironies of maternity.
Photographers from The New York Times visited beaches, parks and cafes to capture readers indulging in a timeless pleasure.
Elisa Gabbert talks about her poetry criticism and her own poems, and Ian Johnson discusses Wang Xiaobo’s novel “Golden Age.”
Between the 1970s and 1990s, the photographer captured a nation at leisure.
“Mount Chicago,” Adam Levin’s new novel, is an absurdist epic for an age of disasters.
The daughter of Richard Rodgers, confidante of Stephen Sondheim and composer of “Once Upon a Mattress” holds nothing back in “Shy.”
In “Bonsai,” Alejandro Zambra tells the story of two young lovers whose lives, relationship and heartbreak intertwine with art and literature.
Older siblings react to the arrival of new babies — in a picture book, a chapter book, an early reader and a middle grade novel.
This list includes a lot of murders, real or imagined.
Here’s what it looks like for a fantasy author to exist in three different spheres at once.
Three women pay homage to their painful pasts with grace, lyricism and a sense of humor.
“As a kid-reader, I thought a library was the great thing to build in life,” says the novelist, whose new book is the nonfiction “Mothercare.” “Now, unless you have a huge house with enormous rooms, this desire leads to mayhem and depression.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A selection of books published this week.
In Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, “The Last White Man,” the white protagonist awakes to find he has turned brown.
The essayist Michelle Tea writes about queer parenting with frankness, humanity and verve.
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