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A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.

In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.

Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.

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

The Mamas & the Papas singer was known for her wit, her voice and her skill as a connector. For 50 years, a rumor has overshadowed her legacy.

“They’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones,” the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Brendan O’Hea, is “Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent.”

An influential arts administrator and educator, he was a trusted confidant to countless writers, notably Philip Roth.

The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.

In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.

New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.