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From rock n' roll to aging disgracefully, there's hopefully something for everyone in these fiction and non-fiction recommendations.

This Here Is Love” by Joy L. Perry is just the second novel to be awarded the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism by the Stowe ...

Go “chapter chasing" to discover the Lake Michigan beaches that inspired rom-coms and cozy mysteries or head Up North for ...

Plausible science fiction occupies a space between imagination and inquiry. It does not promise answers so much as ...

Diane is reading bodice rippers,” he said, citing the old-fashioned name for sexually explicit romance novels. Back then, they were my guilty pleasure. More than 30 years later, I remain a fan of ...

New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.

Today’s romantic fiction is less about horny couplings and happy endings, and more about emotional connections and power ...

Some of our most talented writers are delivering novels, nonfiction and poetry in the coming months. If you want to lose ...

The planned television adaptation of the dystopian science fiction novel Red Rising will no longer move forward, its author, Pierce Brown, announced. The writer recently confirmed that the project, ...

From a death obsessed young woman to the wives of convicted killers, March’s new releases are all about the interior worlds ...

STRAAD is set in 1970s Ireland and described as a ‘modern time with modern morals, but just outside the clutches of mass ...