The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...

We're right in the middle of Stranger Things 5, the final season of the hit Netflix original series, and it's the perfect time to read a new Stranger Things book about Nancy Wheeler. Stranger Things: ...

It’s enough to make you lose your mind. You see your goal, but there’s a barrier in front of it, a barrier that makes no sense. Other people don’t have to jump through hoops or over walls to succeed, ...

The Strength of the Few is an awe-inspiring, emotionally brutal and brilliantly constructed sequel in the Hierarchy series that cements Islington as one of fantasy’s modern greats. This book, this ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Michelle Obama enjoys a nearly ...

How does Stewart O’Nan understand so deeply what it feels like to be an elderly woman? O’Nan’s 19 th novel, “Evensong,” follows half a year in the lives of Susie, Kitzi, Emily, and Arlene, four women ...

Earlier this month, I kept picking up and putting down Lily King's new novel, Heart the Lover. I love King's writing but the opening section was hard for me to take — not in a grisly Cormac McCarthy ...

Margaret Atwood is an indefatigable time traveler. The prolific Canadian author, perhaps best known for “The Handmaid’s Tale” and its phenomenally successful Hulu series adaptation, has written 17 ...

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

When it was suggested to Margaret Atwood that she write a “literary memoir,” her initial response was: “Dead boring. Who wants to read about someone sitting at a desk messing up blank sheets of paper?

The human drive to anthropomorphize is a strange and wondrous habit, if not always a healthy one. The rise of chatbot “therapists” and “girlfriends” is concerning, and I’ll admit I rolled my eyes when ...

Trigger warning for any daughter who has ever had a fraught relationship with their mother: Gish Jen’s remarkable and heartbreaking latest book, “Bad Bad Girl,” may prompt a flood of feelings not felt ...