Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, ...

Lauren Groff returns with a spirited, anguished look at the social narratives that shape our lives in her new short story collection.

Starry and Restless,” by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha ...

Jeff shares his review of The Fungus That Came to Blackeswell, an adventure for the Dolmenwood roleplaying game from Necrotic Gnome and Exalted Funeral.

Finding the right book can make a big difference, especially when you’re just starting out or trying to get better. We’ve ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

“Rebecca Newberger Goldstein isn’t the first philosopher to argue that we are driven by the quest to justify our existence,” said John Kaag in The Atlantic. But in her stirring new book, the ...

There have always been ghosts in George Saunders’ fiction, going back to the revenants of a murdered family that haunt the beleaguered narrator of his breakout novella, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. In ...

New York Times bestselling author Jennette McCurdy returns with her novel, “Half His Age,” following the success of her raw, emotional and honest memoir, “I’m Glad My Mom Died.” “Half His Age” is ...

Tickets: $10 online at spokesman.com/northwest-passages; Northwest Passages readers also can pre-order copies of “The Friend of The Family” to pick up at the ...

“Departure(s)” is novelist Julian Barnes’s last book, according to his publisher, Knopf. And while on the cover, bold as brass, are printed the words “a novel,” the protagonist is Julian Barnes, ...