1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...

The Night Garden by Michael Chabon Chabon’s first novel for adults since 2016, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel ...

Kira Jane Buxton’s story about truffle mania whisks us away to Italy and serves up one buttery page of comedy after another.

The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer ...

The historian shows off the most precious volumes in his collection — including a library book that has been overdue for at ...

This year the nominees in the audiobook, narration and storytelling category include Jimmy Carter, George Clinton and the ...

In “The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow,” Kristen Martin shows that orphanhood is neither a trope nor a metaphor.

Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, “Severance” is a ferociously stylized, wonderfully weird piece ...

The author’s new novel, “Presumed Guilty,” is his third to feature the character Rusty Sabich. Will poor Rusty Sabich ever ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” a posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Adam Higginbotham’s acclaimed work about the Challenger disaster are among the nominees for National Boo ...