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Its author became a pop culture celebrity, and sometimes punchline, but “The Hite Report” helped make way for frank discussions about pleasure.

Jennifer Szalai, Alexandra Jacobs and Dwight Garner discuss their approach to reading and offer stacks and stacks of book recommendations.

Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author’s possessions is up for auction.

The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.

Fourteen authors in the New Directions stable have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including this year and last. How does this small press pack such a punch?

On “The Book Review” podcast, Min Jin Lee, the author of “Pachinko” and “American Hagwon,” explains how losing social safety nets after 1997 reshaped Korean culture into an intense educational race.

The best-selling author John Scalzi recommends his favorite alien thrillers, mad scientist tales and an intergalactic spin on “Moby Dick.”

For her follow-up to “Lessons in Chemistry,” she’s written a novel about poetry editors, one of whom is a “typeface connoisseur.” On the other hand, don’t get her started on clowns.

A meandering manifesto illustrates the challenges of building cultural criticism on big reading and decadent contrariness.

In “Bogland,” Merritt R. Turetsky argues for the importance of that least glamorous of terrains, the bog.