Harrison Hill's book The Oracle's Daughter is a story about the terror of losing the self — but it's also, gratifyingly, a ...

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“You can probably get a sense of which films in this book I really love by the use of language,” Ashley Clark, Curatorial Director at Criterion, says of The World of Black Film, the expansive book ...

Books ahoy! The new year promises adventures, escapes, and mind-bending delights for bibliophiles of all stripes. For fiction lovers, there’s George Saunders’ wild ride of a second novel, Ann Patchett ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted ...

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From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

The Frankfurt Book Fair opens its 77th edition with a robust lineup of professional programming for today—Wednesday, October 15. From CEO conversations to diversity panels, children’s publishing ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

On Tuesday, the National Book Awards announced the finalists for prizes in fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, translated literature and poetry. The winners will be announced at a ceremony ...