In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their ...

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

Wendy Cope is big in Britain, where poetry isn’t quite as sidelined from the literary mainstream as it is here in America. You can see why. Her poetry has a sense of humor, without being merely silly ...

Schools cannot remove books simply for containing descriptions of sexual conduct. That’s according to a new ruling issued by a federal judge this week, and it could have major impacts on books already ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Jenna Bush Hager's Read With Jenna book club has added another 12 months of books to its shelf, and what a well-read year it's been. The ...

Ilana Kurshan is so obsessively determined a reader that when she was in labor with her first child she passed the time between contractions by immersing herself in a book. Naturally, she began ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 2025 is coming to a close, and looking back, we're thankful for the great fiction released from January to December. From mysteries to ...

Authors, critics and booksellers say shrinking coverage weakens local arts, literary culture and the bond between readers and newsrooms ...

Who better than Werner Herzog, the Bavarian mad genius, to take us on a heady time-travelling exploration on what truth might mean/be/permit? The Future of Truth is a summation of his life project, ...

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. People ...