The series belongs to a booming genre called “healing fiction” — cozy, feel-good novels that have long been popular in Japan and Korea and are now catching on in translation around the world.

That book, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel,” lands in stores on Nov. 19, and it immediately pulled me in with its sobering, concise summation of the period ...

Meg’s is vanity, tomboy Jo’s is a terrible temper, Beth is extremely good but shy ... Alcott was pressurised into writing the ...

CHICAGO – A total of 46 books (23 fiction, 23 nonfiction) has been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available on ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2000.

The journey hasn’t been easy. A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller.

Self’s new novel, about a woman struggling against her confined role in the 1950s, is based on his late mother’s journals.

Once a devout tomboy, Mowry admits that she is finally learning to lean into her femininity and to have more fun with the art of getting dressed up. "That's the coolest thing about being in the ...