By Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna’s most recent book is “The Window Seat: Notes From a Life in Motion.” When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Death, monsters, dictators and societal collapse: It’s Halloween, and this week we recommend a handful of books that might keep ...

What a 19th-century Swiss novel, and a young fan’s pilgrimage to the Alps, taught me about fatherhood. By Dave Kim The celebrity chef’s second children’s book, “Billy and the Epic Escape ...

As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew. By Thessaly La Force “Us Fools ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai Folk tales and ...