Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign ...

This month is packed with new sci-fi and fantasy book releases, from the sweeping and epic to the intimate and charming.

Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of “This Is How You Lose the Time War.” ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer ...

Towles chalked it up to men being “out of the habit” of reading fiction, explaining, “We know statistically that men are less ...

And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...

The author further pushed into new territory by exploring crime as a product of human ... “Each book captures another nuanced ...

Cozy, whimsical novels — often featuring magical cats — that have long been popular in Japan and Korea are taking off globally. Fans say they offer comfort during a chaotic time.

The best in Aussie fiction is on display in Robbie Arnott’s latest historical novel. Thirty-seven-year-old twins Iris and ...

Still, personal experience is always presented in service of making something new: “You will mispronounce / words in front of a crowd. It cannot be / avoided. But your poems . . . will be your ...