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...
As a lifelong fan of romantic comedies, my list of favorite “sweet” romances is extensive. Not because I have a spice aversion — but because the...
SEEK THE TRAITOR’S SON, by Veronica Roth I read Veronica Roth’s new novel for adults, “Seek the Traitor’s Son,” over one weekend and had a hard...
WHEN THE FOREST BREATHES: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World, by Suzanne Simard It’s the summer of 2023 and the Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard...
