Our columnist on four stellar new releases. Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first ...

Though born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lutz wields the English language like a polymath émigré—Nabokov if Nabokov ...

The author's account of her husband's sudden death (and what comes after) is a new classic in the literature of widowhood ...

The gun belonged to Paul Freshour — Mary's brother-in-law. Paul was tried and convicted for attempted murder. He was in ...

In “The Killing Fields of East New York,” Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left ...

Florida Republican lawmakers have defied Gov. Ron DeSantis' call for a special session on immigration by tossing out the ...

Joseph O'Connor follows up best-selling "My Father's House" with "The Ghosts of Rome," in which a brave monsignor plots ...

Kay Sohini's move from India to New York was an escape, rebirth and reunion all wrapped in one, leaving behind an abusive relationship and broken family to start anew in the melting-pot city that ...

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

But that doesn’t begin to describe the last non-Indigenous resident of the Boundary Waters, a woman who ran a resort catering ...