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What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse?

Some Jane Austen and a tennis rom-com are just right the right relief when news of fighting and war takes a toll.

The genre — characterized by Gothic intrigue and a liberal arts aesthetic — grew out of Donna Tartt’s cult favorite campus novel, “The Secret History.” Here’s where to start.

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?

The final novel in Hilary Mantel’s great trilogy has been adapted for TV. Her editor joins us this week to discuss working with Mantel on the books.

Nick Harkaway is an accomplished author who also happens to be le Carré’s son. In his latest book, “Karla’s Choice,” he revisits his father’s great spy protagonist, George Smiley.

The fruits of a free-ranging reading week were a fascinating book on China and a political science paper that explains a quirk of far-right politics.

For the first time in 20 years, a sweeping new wine book examines France thoroughly. What’s new may be surprising.

A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.

Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the United States. A 1963 book helps show us why.