A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary...
AMERICA, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. For those of us in the national memory-keeping business, anniversaries hold near-totemic power....
Take me to visit a dysfunctional family with oceanfront real estate by Meg Mitchell Moore Moore is a dependable ingredient in any summer reading soufflé. Her...
At 53, and after more than a decade in the industry, things are happening for the romance writer Kennedy Ryan that were not on her bingo...
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about printed works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical...
In an email interview, she talked about why she followed up a memoir with “Poetry Says It Better” — and when and why she leans on...
Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable combination of Homeric epic and Egyptian ritual: a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the “Iliad” sealed...
In most cases, truth is stranger than fiction. But sometimes we need strange fiction to show us the truth. My favorite works of science fiction and...
Judith Barnard, a freelance writer who stumbled on a second career as a best-selling author at 50, when she teamed with her husband, Michael Fain, a...
Much of the praise for Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s debut book in 2021, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred,” lauded the way...
