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

April celebrates Stress Awareness Month, as well as National Humor Month. In 2025, the theme “Lead with Love” focuses on using compassion and acceptance to help cope with stressful situations.

Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews is a tender-hearted look at the art and pathos of consumerism.

To all the singleton horses from neighboring small towns who attended the unexpectedly large gathering by the old burned tree ...

Book lovers will be in seventh heaven when a Derbyshire town launches it annual festival with a range of national and local ...

Dorothy Parker's posthumously published collection is Poems; Camilla Barnes' debut novel is The Usual Desire to Kill. Both ...

Mostly sunny, warm weather will hold through Wednesday. A trough of low pressure is expected late in the week. This system will bring wind, clouds, showers, and much cooler weather by Friday and ...

The Whiting Award for Poetry is one of 10 annual literary awards ... such as the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. "The (Whiting) prizes are designed to recognize excellence and promise ...

Celebrate National Library Week with these librarians-turned-authors — then check out some of their books to keep the party going at home Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE.

The conversations aren’t particularly deep or self-congratulatory: they are breezy, funny and light. Poehler and Fey discuss touring together, their shared dislikes (rich celebrities with “side ...

So why not think about putting these great poetry books on your shelf this month? When you spend time with poetry, you expect a certain kind of relationship between author and reader. That’s only part ...

With her new book, "How to Write a Funny Speech … for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn’t Want to Go to in the First Place" (Chronicle Books, $16.95), she joins ...