Literature

The best literary fiction titles of 2023 probe human nature, celebrate creativity, depict history, and investigate the stories we tell ourselves.

The best world literature books of 2023 examine colonialism, limn loss, juxtapose past and present, and scrutinize human relationships.

Travel the world with these selections of top fall titles of translated fiction.

Jeremy Dauber's book sets itself apart, and comics enthusiasts will be enthralled. Douglas Wolk's analysis of Marvel Comics is both a useful introduction and reference guide.

The goal of this newly revived column will be to highlight recent and forthcoming reprints and rediscoveries, with the aim of helping busy librarians replenish their stock of not merely treasured classics but also notable recoveries from the past, to populate the shelves with exciting, unexpected finds for readers and patrons for years to come.

Translated novels first written in French, Farsi, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean comprise the best world literature published in 2020.

Belonging and acceptance, ecological disaster, Shakespeare's child. The best literary fiction published in 2020.

Some readers are spending their time in lockdown reading formidable classics. Yet for anyone not quite ready to dig into Ulysses, the works of Jane Austen are always a good idea.

A truly innovative approach to understanding the author-reader connection; for the lit-crit crowd looking to affirm ­Ferrante’s reinvention of the future of the novel; these fragments of ­Ferrante ultimately cohere into a full, absorbing portrait of an ­enduring author