Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...

Oline Cogdill’s favorite mystery novels of 2024, a year marked by rich plots, diverse and fully realized characters and vivid ...

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 ...

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

Let the Sun In’ A leading figure in mid-century American design, Alexander Girard is perhaps best known for the vivid colour ...

The best writing about the domestic ... with a special interest in children’s books Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election ...