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

The editors of the reviewing publications no longer seem to be engaged in literature. Books pile up, out they go, and in comes the review. Many distinguished minds give their names to various long and ...

Jo Harkin has invented her own literary language with her dazzling novel “The Pretender” about Edward Plantagenet, a boy ...

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

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

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, ...