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

Ask readers to list Emily Henry books in order of their most to least favorite, and you'll get a different answer each time.

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

Although the first few months of 2025 for me have been packed with busy schedules and piling assignments, I always try to ...

Literature is about more than telling stories; it is about sharing perspectives and experiences that can open our eyes. Books ...

The stage is set and as it stands, one out of the overwhelming 252 entries received for the 2025 Nigeria Prize For Literature will, expectedly, emerge victorious come October this year.

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to ...

An Eye and a Leg” has been described as "a darkly humorous and surreal take on the trope of the ‘expiring’ South Asian woman" ...

International Booker Prize-winning novels that belong on every serious reader's shelf. Each story leaves a lasting emotional ...

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...

The writer, who was a presidential candidate in Peru in the 1990s, turned from Marxism to liberalism with the zeal of a ...

Assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo explores “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual” in her Asian American ...