On movie screens, Peter Sellers reveled in comic inventiveness. The dark side of his genius took the lead in his personal life.

In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel “Repetition,” a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises.

A master craftsman supposedly pours their soul into their work. In this book review of The Violin Maker’s Secret, we explore an instrument that ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: (L-R) Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg attend The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, ...

Writing for preteen readers in the early 1970s, Judy Blume offered stories that addressed life’s mysteries—including sex—with ...

In the book world, Colleen Hoover’s about as polarizing as an author can get. Some readers laud her as a literary powerhouse, a mainstay of the romance genre. Others consider her books — and her ...

I almost wound up underlining all of Walter Isaacson’s slim new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. It’s that smart, challenging, personal, humane -- with only 41 pages of text and a few short ...

Book Review: Adrian Tchaikovsky makes an epic return with 'Children of Strife' to his beloved Children of Time saga ...

PEOPLE LIKE US. By Jason Mott. Dutton. 288 pages. $30. North Carolina native Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for “Hell of a Book,” well-earned recognition for one of the most ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

Not this Baum. Asher Baum, the protagonist of Allen’s novel. Although the cover of Woody Allen’s novel What’s With Baum? riffs on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” the New York skyline in the background, a ...

Poet Jane Hirshfield, who will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, has said this: “What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and ...