Kevin Harris

… for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards, … Babylon: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster) Matthew Zapruder, Story … Schiff, Information Desk (Penguin Books) Charif Shanahan, Trace Evidence … House) * GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE Kareem Abdulrahman … ​

The comedy legend responsible for “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein” has written a memoir with the cheer and zip of a one-liner.

Ed Park’s latest Graphic Content column looks at new work from Matt Madden and R. Kikuo Johnson.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Hervé Le Tellier’s novel, a runaway best seller and prize winner in France, is about the strange and mysterious fate of the passengers on a flight from Paris to New York.

Robert Gottlieb’s scrupulous study, “Garbo,” suggests that the great star was a sphinx without a secret.

Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the two practices are inextricably linked.

Patchett talks about her new essay collection, and Corey Brettschneider discusses a series of books about liberty.

Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church’s centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder “fallen women” and their children.

Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.