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His fairy tales are part of our cultural fabric, but “The Little Match Girl” still haunts me.

An unhappy housewife; an underground radical.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai, book critics at The New York Times, recommend three road trip books.

Novels by R.F. Kuang and Louis Sachar, a spicy culinary memoir, a new Octavia E. Butler biography and more.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

We asked therapists and researchers for the best books on learning to let go.

Our critic on the best new books this month.

A novel of adolescent friendship; a brooding celebrity memoir.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.