Netflix's Land of Sin is a bleak yet engrossing Nordic noir thriller set in rural Sweden, featuring a complex female lead.

In Matthew Pearl’s novel, an ambitious writer finds that the editor downstairs is more hindrance than help.

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the ...

Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism. By David Kirby David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His latest book is “The Winter Dance Party, ...

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 ...

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On May 3, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge delivered a 3,000-word address at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center. The New York Times, which printed the ...

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

Bayer Leverkusen’s game at Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga has been postponed at short notice over structural concerns ...

Interested in teaching the younger generation about those things called "books"? Have little (or not-so-little) ones who are ready to broaden their reading horizons? Below you can find tried-and-true ...