The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.

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So here we are again, at yet another 7th Heaven series finale. They're saying this time, it's for real. They even had a funeral...

Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media

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Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time

A new biography argues that the star quarterback’s divorce was his biggest fumble.

These jaw-dropping images and behind-the-scenes stories showcase the photographers’ artistry and the beauty of birdlife from Canada to Chile.

A massive new history of WWII’s pivotal year.

Tom Sawyer recommends a poetical strategy for educating the nation’s most promising youth in liberty.

Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard, Anne Carson, and how translators have interpreted Sappho.

When Mario Vargas Llosa announced in October 2023 that his new novel, Le dedico mi silencio—now published in English as I Give You My Silence—would be his

Plus Laia Jufresa’s “Wishbone” and Madeline ffitch’s “Avalon, Rise.”

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

The celebrated author, who passed away this week, had two great themes: seeing and suffering.

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Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

A new warts-and-all biography of the great portrait painter John Singer Sargent

Plus Kate Atkinson’s “Our Noble Selves.”

Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you...

In two great and infinitely strange novels, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba, the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis elaborates a philosophy called Humanitism. According to Quincas Bo...

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

Biblioklept is twenty years old today. I was 27 when I started the blog which I guess means I’m 47 now. The blog is older than both of my children (it is almost exactly nine months older than…

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In two great and infinitely strange novels, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba, the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis elaborates a philosophy called Humanitism. According to Quincas Bo...

Pierre Damas Bel stepped into highway traffic after losing his immigration status. Before that, he posed for a picture of his ankle bracelet.

Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.

The author’s family saga unfolds the hardship and beauty of life in a rural corner of Kentucky.

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

The author of “A Brief History of Seven Killings” delivers a music-saturated novel set in Jamaica’s gay community at the close of the 20th century.

Keith Waldrop’s memoir of midcentury America is saturated by the religious fervor that gripped his mother. His childhood was filled with visionaries and eccentrics.

The author of “A Brief History of Seven Killings” delivers a music-saturated novel set in Jamaica’s gay community at the close of the 20th century.