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The Times’s critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptations.

More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.

If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event’s floor plan.

He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.

In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy.

Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.

Sierra Greer’s debut novel, “Annie Bot,” explores questions of misogyny and toxic masculinity by following a pleasure robot that begins to develop her own consciousness.

Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.

The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list?

Because we could all use a laugh.