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

As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.

An assault led to Chanel Miller’s book, “Know My Name.” But she had wanted to write children’s books since she was a child. She’s done that now with “Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All.”

The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.

She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.

A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.

For American Jews who grew up thinking antisemitism was a thing of the past, the last several years have been startling. White supremacists marched in Charlottesville. A gunman massacred worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Then came the Hamas

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.

In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.