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

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge.

This “huge” fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he “pretty much hated” “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris.” His own new novel is “People Like Us.”

Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America.

Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by Janet Ahlberg, including classics like “Each Peach Pear Plum.”

The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich sees “the central struggle of civilization as fighting bullies,” he says in a new memoir.

An Yu portrays a community trying to maintain daily routines amid dire, irreversible circumstances.

In the scrumptious “Tart,” the anonymous London haute-cuisine veteran Slutty Cheff tells all. Deliciously.

In 2018, the cast of a web series joked about an imaginary (and very saucy) book. Now, it’s a real best seller. Just embrace the tusks.

Esther Freud returns to the autofictional world of her breakout novel, “Hideous Kinky,” published more than 30 years ago.