A novel set in the final days of the Second World War has won this year’s Libris Literatuur Prijs, the most prestigious literary award in the Dutch-speaking world. Bert Natter won the €50,000 prize fo...

My grandfather helped his family survive in Nazi-occupied Austria. What his story taught me about fatherhood.

Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Margo Jefferson sits down with the debut novelist to discuss his literary mystery, from channeling the work of E. Franklin Frazier to finding inspiration in Carolyn Besse...

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In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann considers why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.

The debut author talks Icelandic horses, Scorpio questions, and one failure of imagination.

“On December 1, 2014, Ala’a al-Hashemi, a Yemeni-born Emirati woman, murdered an American schoolteacher in a public restroom in Abu Dhabi.”

When she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us. She started speaking in the voice of a stranger. Her usual voice is what linguists call RP, Received Pronunciation, the “standard” a…

Academy Award–winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins delves into his illustrious film and theater career, difficult childhood, and path to sobriety in his honest, moving, and long-awaited memoir.

New books from Susan Choi, Anne Tyler, Tina Knowles, Torrey Peters, R.F. Kuang, Kevin Wilson, and more