Adam Sternbergh

The Apple TV hit is just the latest of a particular kind of paranoid thriller, one that addresses the anxiety that our enemies are the people closest to us.

Charles Baxter’s new novel is a snapshot of a troubled America, disguised as a speculative comedy.

“The Stolen Coast,” by Dwyer Murphy, is a heist novel involving rough diamonds, crooked lawyers and masters of the double cross.

We’re living in a rage-filled emotional dystopia. Is there a way out?

Daniel Nieh’s “Take No Names,” filled with international intrigue and cross-border conflicts, is a noir novel for the modern age.

In S.A. Cosby’s new novel, “Razorblade Tears,” two fathers avenge their sons’ murders in great gothic geysers of blood.

The city was glorious without tourists. But that time must come to an end.

Jonathan Ames, known for his confessional essays and TV shows like “Bored to Death,” tries his hand at a detective novel with “A Man Named Doll.”

The pandemic has dampened the celebrations worldwide. But a Times special project, which includes an interactive music mixing feature, lets readers get into a party mood.

The process of publishing an excerpt from the author’s new novel was just as mysterious as the writer herself.

In Stan Parish’s new novel, “Love and Theft,” a Vegas jewel heist goes off perfectly. Or does it?

Once a father took his aversion to “Frozen” and, yes, let it go, he realized that beyond the branded backpacks and Anna and Elsa matching sock sets, the movie is an ingeniously crafted tale.

“Interior Chinatown” explores Asian-American stereotypes, something that captivated the novelist and TV writer as he thought about stars, supporting characters and who gets to play the lead.

A new adaptation of the graphic novel “Watchmen” is coming to HBO. The original changed superhero tales — and pop culture at large — forever.

In Juli Zeh’s “Empty Hearts,” a German businesswoman runs a start-up that matches despondent people with terrorist organizations in need of suicide bombers.

A pleasant protest against the tyranny of workplace productivity.

We have the “beach read” and the “airplane read,” but what about those books best suited for the subway?

A case for embracing the life of a cultural libertine.

Every generation gets the Washington TV show it deserves — and Beau Willimon’s Washington is only getting darker.

Recreating the Greenwich Village of the 1960s, using the East Village, Brooklyn and Chinatown.