‘By admitting that, I fear I will be drummed out of the Novelists’ Corps,’ she says. ‘The Black Bird Oracle,’ the latest in her best-selling ‘All Souls’ series, is just out.
Musical adaptations of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and “The Lord of the Rings” as well as a new Samuel D. Hunter play were on our critic’s itinerary.
In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “My Brilliant Friend,” the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet.
Recognized literary translators — Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bruna Dantas Lobato among them — are making the jump to publishing rosters as authors themselves.
American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan.
The book has sold more than 750,000 copies since July 15, his publisher said.
There are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only two by U.K. authors.
Mai Sennaar’s “They Dream in Gold” weaves together the stories of a Black American woman’s search for her Swiss-Senegalese lover and the people who’ve shaped the couple’s lives.
Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel follows a journalist with an elusive history and a persistent wanderlust.
In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.
The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.
The protagonist of Madison Newbound’s debut novel, “Misrecognition,” returns to her hometown after a breakup with her power-imbalanced polycule.
The second in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.
A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.
On the centennial of James Baldwin’s birth, a look at this revolutionary work that was a playwriting milestone for him.
Discussion about what books children should access has diminished on the national stage. But most rules pertaining to schools and libraries are made at the state and local level.
New novels by Elif Shafak and Casey McQuiston, a biography of a gay cultural icon, a dystopian tale of A.I. gone awry — and more.
Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship.
In influential books, he questioned top-down government programs and extolled the power of the powerless, embracing a form of anarchism.
Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.
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