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

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

David McCloskey, a C.I.A. analyst turned spy novelist, has just released his fifth book, “London Station.”

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.

A new biography argues that the artist famous for haunting canvases of solitary figures in late-night diners was deeply influenced by his times.

Thanks to begrudging cooperation from the comedian and writer, a new biography is suitably kvetchy, if a little too long and a little too nice.

In “Every Story Is a Love Story,” a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.