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Tom McCarthy’s new novel brings double agents, drugs and document drops into his signature critiques of contemporary systems.

In her latest work, the historian Marion Gibson focuses on the victims of a deadly English witch hunt.

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Covering a flood powerful enough to disrupt the dead.

The best-selling author Kat Dunn recommends some of her favorite modern retellings, of “Jane Eyre,” “Frankenstein” and more.

In a 1999 book, she chronicled the spy agency’s secret backing of Cold War culture projects to manipulate public opinion against Communism in Western Europe.

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh’s nuanced take on the Netflix show’s villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.

A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.

Min Jin Lee, the author of the new novel “American Hagwon,” breaks down the phenomenon of young children living far from home that inspired one of the characters in the book.