He wrestled with faith, doubt and his own flawed humanity, translating those struggles into novels that described the chaos and contradictions of life, and his writing became a mirror for readers ...

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew ...

Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far. By Sarah Weinman Our crime columnist on books by Kate Atkinson, Nicholas Meyer ...

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The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about ...

Yael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the Holocaust ...

We’ve completely retested and revamped our picks for book subscription boxes to include something for every kind of reader and a couple excellent clubs for kids. September 2024 Whether you’re ...

Brock, a former attack dog for the right who underwent a high-profile political conversion, argues that Clarence Thomas has helped turn the court into a “demented psychodrama.” ...

Book banning, which the ALA defines as restricting access to material by removing temporarily or indefinitely, has been the subject of fiery debate in courts and classrooms, libraries and living ...

Awkward. It’s not the first time I’ve heard of kids not enjoying the children’s classic by EB White, but there’s a reason it’s on most year four book lists. It’s an old-school classic ...

It was an emotionally dark and stormy night in 2020 when I had the urge to write a novel. I’d been having panic attacks. To work through it, I decided to write a novel about an isolated mom and ...