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

Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.

Getting older has been a punchline for as long as anyone can remember. And while there are plenty of jokes to be made about aging, it can also have some negative implications for how we see ourselves and others. For writer Anne Lamott, aging has been

The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.

With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.

Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.

In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.

In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.

In a new memoir, the journalist Emily Witt delivers a coolly precise chronicle of Brooklyn’s underground party scene and her romance with a fellow partygoer.

There are stakes on the plane in “Here One Moment,” the latest from the Australian fiction powerhouse.