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Barry Gifford’s bohemian scrapbook; Elizabeth McCracken’s eulogy for a mother.

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

After publishing “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957, he went on to build an empire of guidebooks, package tours, hotels and other services.

The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.

Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” series continues with a young man switching identities in a society seeking to erase him.

“Lazarus Man” follows several characters in Harlem in the wake of a building collapse.

In his novel “States of Emergency,” Chris Knapp doesn’t just tighten the distance between our inner lives and the world around us; he erases it.

Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award finalist, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its many forms.

“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before.

Two families navigate a pivotal holiday season that transforms their lives.