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“The Outsiders” is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.

Fantasy epics, pastoral classics and family dramas provide something to sink your teeth into on cold evenings.

Steamy love stories starring athletes and top-notch yearners will tide you over until your next trip to the cottage.

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

Evans’s epistolary tale, about a retired lawyer who spends her days writing to a series of pen pals, became one of last year’s sleeper hits.

Lola Lafon’s book “When You Listen to This Song” is a hit in its native France. Now in English, it explores identity, loss and memory in wholly new ways.

Fiction by George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Laura Dave; a bracingly honest divorce memoir; Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel; and more.

In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.

There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved book.

To capture Jane Austen’s brief life and enormous impact, editors at The New York Times Book Review assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.