From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong in every kid's library. Others ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

A barrage of recent autobiographical meditations on divorce hew to a plot as strict as the one they seek to upend ...

In 1967, a team including Jean-Paul Sartre put the US ‘on trial’ for its actions in Vietnam. Clive Webb’s Vietdamned surveys their efforts ...

Books & the Arts / In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life.

The real problems never really disappear—the novel may end because we’ve turned all the pages (or the writer runs out of willpower), but her books are composed of echoes and loops. Things ...

For the first time in modern American history, a skeptic of medical research could be responsible for safeguarding public health. The World-Changing Gaze of Celia Paul Paul has spent nearly fifty ...

Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...

A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong anchor Burke’s new book, “The Note.” It started with real life. This slim novella about one Irishman’s crisis of conscience during the Christmas ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...