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

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When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...

The novelist Robyn Gigl picks her favorite courtroom dramas and legal whodunits — some of which may surprise you.

Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s ...

In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily human. By Donna Barba Higuera Gianni Rodari used puns ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the ...

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our ...

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