In her debut novel The Berry Pickers, Canadian author Amanda Peters tells the gripping stories of Ruthie, a four-year-old ...

When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had long admired, her desire to impress him got in the way at first, she said.

Essential books about racism for all readers When it comes to understanding race and social justice in this country, authors ...

In the early 20th century – a time when men held most positions of authority – Greene was a celebrated book agent, a curator and the first director of the Morgan Library. She also earned US$10,000 a ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

L IDIA YUKNAVITCH’S new book, Reading the Waves, arrives fourteen years after her first memoir, The Chronology of Water, and ...

Allison Holker detailed her relationship with the late Stephen “tWitch” Boss in her newly released memoir, This Far: My Story ...

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Here in the Arts & Life section, we see love everywhere, but most importantly, through art. In the delicate stroke of a ...

By Juan Vidal In H.M. Bouwman’s wise and heartbreaking “Scattergood,” the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to ... “I can’t read. I can’t talk. I don’t care about ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and ... by the digital age “Elita” is a novel about a young girl who emerges alone from the wild in the 1950s and a woman who helps to ...

Some fair-goers were scolded by security workers for climbing a ladder in hopes of a closer glance at the California-born ...