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“Infinite Country,” by Patricia Engel, follows a mixed-status exodus across the American border.

In “Oh My Gods!” by Stephanie Cooke, Insha Fitzpatrick and Juliana Moon, the new girl gets to sit at the cool kids’ table. (Her father is Zeus.)

Unbeknown to them, a spoiled girl and an enslaved boy share an immutable connection in Laura Amy Schlitz’s “Amber & Clay.”

For the first time in more than a century, the society is adding new spots for members, with a diverse group of cultural figures.

Radhika Jones discusses Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun,” and Mark Harris talks about “Mike Nichols: A Life.”

This week’s crime fiction column includes SJ Bennett’s new novel, “The Windsor Knot,” in which the monarch investigates a murder at Windsor Castle.

Her seminal works brought scholarship to the field and helped develop appreciation for it as a creative art form.

Emily Mortimer, who grew up with a prominent free-speech advocate before becoming an actress and screenwriter, has some ideas.

Long-awaited novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Imbolo Mbue and Viet Thanh Nguyen, a publishing-house caper, Stephen King’s latest and more.

An excerpt from “Infinite Country,” by Patricia Engel

When the revolutionary writer arrived in New York City, he slammed headfirst into a scandal.

In “Count Down,” Shanna Swan tells a story of declining sperm count, rising infertility and the possible extinction of the human species.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Though the two forms remain distinct, today’s rising stars in both genres are creating a shared literary ideal that gives voice to the Black and brown experience.

When pandemic New York seemed at its most surreal, the park, with its abundant wildlife and familiar progression of the seasons, offered a vision of normal life to a book critic who wandered it daily.

The beloved author’s most famous books, like “Green Eggs and Ham,” were untouched, but his estate’s decision nevertheless prompted a backlash and raised questions about what should be preserved as part of the cultural record.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Alexandra Andrews’s debut novel follows a Machiavellian aspiring writer who becomes entangled in her work for a best-selling fiction writer.

Jamie Figueroa’s debut novel, “Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer,” is a ghost story set in the tropics, centered on a broken family traumatized by foreign forces.

The company that oversees the children’s author’s estate said that the titles contained depictions of groups that were “hurtful and wrong.”

Carl Phillips turns loss into more than another sad song, into sorrow, which feels heavier and seems to matter more.

The author of “The Sum of Us” did not want her new best seller to look like a book that was only intended for one kind of reader.

“She’s such a compassionate describer of her characters with all their flaws.”

From beans and baking projects to vegan and global recipes, the year’s best sellers show the ways home cooking changed, and what may lie ahead.

The magician explains how he worked up to “In & Of Itself” in a new memoir, “Amoralman,” a prequel of sorts to the show.

Named to the top job in 2018, her resignation follows a handful of personnel changes at literary publications.

In their new book, the journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes recount how Biden’s campaign overcame a number of moments when its chances were nearly sunk.

Three new essay collections survey the range of anxieties that befall us today.

BRZRKR, a new comic book created and co-written by the actor, has a character who looks a lot like him. It’s also receiving high orders from comic-book shops.

She was known for two book series centered on complex female characters, and for stories that illuminated her native North Carolina.

Stephen King’s new novel, “Later,” is something of a hybrid of genres: part detective tale, part thriller, with a horror story filling in the seams.

Though Nella Larsen’s classic 1929 novel is understood to be a tragedy, it also exposes race to be something of a farce.

With the novel “Khalil,” the former Algerian Army officer who writes as Yasmina Khadra examines the roots of radicalization.

New audiobooks from Ibram X. Kendi, George Saunders, Charles Yu and more.

In “Amoralman,” the sleight-of-hand artist Derek DelGaudio turns to philosophy in an attempt to understand the nature of reality and deception.

An excerpt from “The Committed,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen