Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Pickleball Blast is a competitive, family-friendly pickleball-inspired board game that promotes active play and sportsmanship ...

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah has invited actor/writer/comedian Michael Ian Black to read Capote’s ...

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

While not explicitly for readers in the PNW, Miranda July's second novel "All Fours" has a whole of lot folks talking around ...

Can't stop thinking about the dystopian world of Big Brother in "1984" and want more of it? Here are 10 sci-fi novels with ...

Whether is books ... best. Apocalypse Now is a dark movie. It's one man's journey into the depths of hell, as set during the Vietnam War. It also shows just how much war is just war, no matter the ...

As a follow-up to my recent article on Jesse Stuart’s family during World War II, I offer this article about two of Stuart’s ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

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