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

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

It makes me feel awful. The things I once found beautiful escape my notice, become ghosts at the periphery of a screen. In a ...

Amazon is reversing a ban on a book that is critical of transgender ideology and will now allow the work to be sold nearly ...

The Village Bohemian counterculture movement in the late 19th century and early 20th, with its artistic creativity and ...

Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Politicians seeking higher office publish memoirs to portray their lives in the best possible light. And now, California Gov.

A new internal memo being circulated among certain Republican lawmakers is encouraging a set of talking points to push back ...

One perk of being elected president is choosing U.S. attorneys. Will a federal probe of North Carolina GOP legislative ...

Liberals and socialists typically see themselves as foes. But truly realizing liberal ideals of freedom and equality means ...

If you’re reading this, you probably have the same feeling I do: we’re stuck. Our political stagnation is one thing, a blob in Washington and beyond ensures that real change is nearly impossible. That ...