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The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.

Laura van den Berg’s new book, “State of Paradise,” sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?

Starting on July 8, we’ll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.

In “Private Revolutions,” Yuan Yang follows the lives of women in a rapidly changing modern superpower.

It can be thrillingly dangerous and profoundly comforting at the same time.

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

The second annual Queen’s Reading Room Festival at Hampton Court Palace celebrated what Queen Camilla has called the “great adventure” of the written word.

Want to indulge in juicy, page-turning escapism? We’ve got some recommendations.

But “I’m averse to entertaining the thought that what I’m working on is a first draft,” she says, “which implies the necessity of a second, even a third.” Her new book is “Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael.”

After 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls out of his chair.