A novel about hidden family stories, farm life, and the Midwest’s lost decade of crisis.

The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş (Bloomsbury) Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead) Godwin by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon) Great...

From novels to essay collections, memoirs to short stories, and even more experimental fare, there’s no shortage of great reads coming out this season.

Award-winning novelist talks about multilingualism, inspirations of everyday life during a “Writers Speak” event hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center.

Thrillers, novels, memoirs, and more hot new reads for your 2025 reading list

If you're reaching for a great read right now, NPR has the thing for you: the 2024 "Books We Love."

Process journal : Seven years of notes

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

Author and film Executive Producer David List spoke to Adam Wurtzel about his new novel "What Are the Odds."

So, it turns out that Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones and Todd Field are very serious in their intentions of adapting author Marilynne Robinson’s acclaimed “Gilead” novels.

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The first series from Booker-winning author Marlon James ('A Brief History of Seven Killings') stars Tamara Lawrance as a former Scotland Yard officer looking for a missing girl in Kingston.

Erin’s work with Fertile Ground, and Carrie’s with Black Family Land Trust, are part of the multidimensional aspect of regenerative agriculture. Regenerative agriculture renews both urban and rural co...