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

The Wheel of Time will return for its third season on Prime Video, and from the opening minutes we've already seen, it could ...

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

The ‘Longlegs’ director returns with a gruesome horror film, based on a Stephen King short story, about a wind-up toy that ...

The book tells five very short stories about Owl, a fearful but ultimately loving bird with an unusual outlook on the world. Until very recently, my 6-year-old demanded a nightly reading of the second ...

The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to ...