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Where Miguel de Cervantes’ 16th century work is smart, suspenseful, playful and pointed, “Lookingglass Quixote” is over-the-top, sophomoric and largely incoherent.

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and ...

It’s about what it means to be a young person in a generation that is going to end, and is currently changing the world,” the lauded poet said of her new book.

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

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

Vatican Observatory director Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno explores faith and science in his new book, “A Jesuit’s Guide to ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

With the last four chapters of Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book 2024 high jewellery collection, ‘Tiffany Céleste’ continues to ...

SEATTLE — Evening Reads is Northwest authors telling us about their books in their own words. Most folks know this man as the ...