Even the least self-aware person experiences an occasional moment of reflection on the meaning of life and what might happen when it ends. For

In The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Pulitzer Prize winner Jill Lepore warns of a future in which technology supplants democracy.

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In 2024, Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. She stumbles upon Sunrise, a town of the Old West that holds the missing link to a ghost story 100 years in the making....

On November 23, 2022, 77-year-old retired chemist David Perry died in a hospital bed installed in his bungalow in Norwich, England, nine days

Claire Stapleton organized the 2018 Google Walkout. In Don’t Be Evil, she addresses the chasm that separates Google from the reality of life.

Paul Yoon’s Etna is an engrossing, deeply moving parable about the evils of war, with a canine protagonist who embodies humanity at its best.

Matthew Quick traveled all over the world advocating for mental health awareness, standing before crowds as a success story. But secretly, he was depressed. And some days, he didn’t want to live. Year...

It's been said that friends are the family one chooses. Lydia Millet's Fair Ones perfectly encapsulates that sentiment. In this emotionally

Ply, Hernan Diaz's first novel since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Trust, is both a touching story of a young woman's struggle to find security

Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, 12 ye...

Through languid days and firefly-lit nights, Ethan Joella’s The Top of the World leaves memories as vivid as a cherished vacation snapshot.

Reporter Clarence Thomas Jr. is looking for a great story, former country music teen star Faith Spack has parlayed her fame into a job at the White House, and the two-term incumbent president is campa...

University of Pennsylvania classical studies professor Emily Wilson received considerable critical praise and popular attention for her translations

Homecomings, especially long-delayed ones, can be hard. Unresolved emotions and buried secrets sometimes bubble to the surface when the wanderer

In a January 2026 blog post, Welsh author Liam Higginson cited Shirley Jackson and Stephen King as two of his main literary influences. While

In September 2022, the unthinkable happened: 19-year-old American chess prodigy Hans Niemann defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning face-to-face match. Within days, Carlsen accused Niema...

Ever since humans began living in groups, conspiracy theories have been a fact of social life, but since the rise of the Internet and the birth

Tom Coyne, the New York Times bestselling author of A COURSE CALLED AMERICA and numerous other contemporary classics of golf literature, has spent his career traveling the world and playing legendary ...

The Midnight Train poses questions about what it means to live a good life through the heartfelt story of one man’s failures and successes

GHOST STORIES is an intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written after the death of Siri Hustvedt’s husband, Paul Auster. The book includes personal, never-before-seen writing by Au...

Douglas Stuart’s carefully carved sentences, which brim with acute observations and occasional sharp humor, make John of John a joy to read.

In the early morning of November 29, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a ...

The simplicity of its title masks the depth of insight and emotion that makes Maggie O'Farrell's novel Land such an encompassing reading experience

The astute characters of Transcription allow us to reflect on whether the privilege we accord recorded recollections is truly deserved.

Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. These 11 stories transport readers across continents and eras. In “...