NYT Books

Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.

The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list?

Because we could all use a laugh.

Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” Her 2012 “Heroines” has just been reissued.

In “Glad to the Brink of Fear,” James Marcus frames the great Transcendentalist as a writer for our times.

Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.

The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today.

An Israeli writer’s essay about seeking common ground with Palestinians led to the resignation of at least 10 staff members at Guernica.

A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.

After writing memorable character sketches and fine-tuning others’ copy at The New Yorker, he spent two decades as editor in chief of The Atlantic Monthly.