1 FOURTH WING (Red Tower, $20.99). By Rebecca Yarros. A young woman competes to secure a spot at an elite war college for ...

This month, check out new historical fiction by Pam Jenoff and a horror novel with an adaptation already in the works.

“Americanah,” that made the Nigerian writer a best-selling star in the United States. Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long ...

Michael Dirda is synonymous with the literary life. He’s been called “the best-read person in America,” and it’s easy to ...

In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s second novel is about three characters with things to hide in turn-of-the-20th-century New York Two new books -- “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild ...

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

As the Trump DEI purge widens, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered restrictions on what books DOD schools can teach, ...

The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer strangeness of people’s lives.