Post will discuss his new book, "The Smithsonian National Gem Collection Unearthed,” which explores the scandals, mysteries ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

We know novels have the power to take us to different places and time periods. And with biographical historical fiction books ...

By Alida Becker In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat. By Hari Kunzru A medieval heist, a Halifax murder, a Dutch wartime winter and a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Author Susan Corso's "Subversive Lovelies" series, set in New York's Gilded Age, explores the lives of four sisters who ...

The 72-year-old New Orleanian is about to publish his 12th book, a work of historical fiction based on the life of Robert ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

Scotland’s so-called “Queen of Crime,” Val McDermid, has created an engrossing, page-turning counternarrative about one of Shakespeare’s great villains, Lady Macbeth. McDermid sets the record straight ...

The best in Aussie fiction is on display in Robbie Arnott’s latest historical novel. Thirty-seven-year-old twins Iris and Floyd Renshaw are homeless, low on funds and out of work when they learn ...