Here they are — the 10 Best Books of 2024. At the Book Review, we spend all year getting ready for this moment. We begin ...

For book lovers and literary enthusiasts, there’s a special thrill that comes from immersing oneself in the world of ...

In the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (“Cien Años de Soledad”), the literary masterpiece ...

Great writers in the Trump years need to open up their eyes to take in all of America — not just echo the literary and ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë ...

Nineteenth-century literature and culture have proved a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since 1994, books in this series have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian ...

What he was really asking was what “being a Jew” meant to him: an emancipated, assimilated European, specifically English, living in the second half of the 20th century, without any religious faith ...

In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain. David Abulafia goes in search of ...

Source? Person? It's Haruki Murakami's first novel in six years. And it's actually a re-visiting of a novella he wrote in 1980. In an interview conducted through a translator via email ...