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.

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

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s, but the disease continues to claim about 1.5 million lives around the globe ...

In this story, Jia seeks to express that within the cyclical nature of history, even in times of war and chaos like the ...