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

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As a millennial herself, Gilbert wanted to explore, from the perspective of a critic, how and why seemingly every genre of ...

Four newly translated novels, including Tezer Özlü’s work about a Turkish woman who travels in the footsteps of the writers ...

James Joyce’s biographer traveled all over Europe searching for details about the author of “Ulysses” and “Dubliners.” The ...

Masterpiece’ presents a four-part drama about Jane Austen and her elder sister, Cassandra, who burned the bulk of the ...

The latest volume continues to feature some of the very finest contemporary literary work, with six short stories, a novella, ...

Sonia Faleiro’s new book How I Write attempts to extract this very clarity from this haze of the creative process. The book is a series of interviews with South Asian writers who, according to Falerio ...