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Not many, according to a new collection of correspondence from a science fiction master.

Be wary of the recipes (all that glaze!), but there’s still delight in getting advice about etiquette, guest lists and fondue.

He attempted to define evil by plumbing the biographies and motivations of hundreds of violent felons who had committed heinous crimes.

Slip these into your pockets.

Banned book tables are a frequent sight at many bookstores. But are they helping the authors who need it most?

New York Times commenters share their favorite books of the year.

John Vaillant, the author of “Fire Weather” (one of our 10 Best Books this year), discusses climate change and the fire that devastated a Canadian petroleum town in 2016.

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s.

A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women.

Corinna Luyken, Philip Stead and Isabelle Arsenault capture the unique brightness that comes after the dark.