Book Review: ‘Katabasis,’ by R.F. Kuang Image Date Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description A graduate student must venture into the underworld to save the professor she accidentally killed in this bold new novel.
Greg Iles, Novelist Who Wrote About Race in Mississippi, Dies at 65 Image Date Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 7:44 AM Description In his best-selling books, notably the “Natchez Burning” trilogy, he addressed what one reviewer called “the pervasive impact of past events.”
Spy Novels: A Starter Pack Image Date Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 5:17 AM Description Interested in espionage fiction, but don’t know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
Spy Fiction: Where to Start if You’re Interested Image Date Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 5:17 AM Description Interested in espionage fiction, but don’t know where to start? Let our expert guide you.
Jen Hatmaker’s Life Exploded in Middle Age. So She Built a Better One. Image Date Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 3:15 AM Description “It’s like I woke up halfway through my life.”
Book Review: ‘Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler,’ by Susana M. Morris Date Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books.
Book Club: ‘Wild Dark Shore,’ by Charlotte McConaghy Image Date Friday, August 22, 2025 - 12:48 PM Description Charlotte McConaghy’s novel about one isolated family, a mysterious stranger and the secrets they all hold is just the thing for late summer.
Book Club: Read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ by Jane Austen, With the Book Review Date Friday, August 22, 2025 - 8:00 AM Description In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions.
Denmark Wants Kids to Read More. Will a Tax Cut Help? Image Date Friday, August 22, 2025 - 4:29 AM Description With the country facing a “reading crisis,” the Danish government plans to exempt books from a 25 percent value-added tax.
Book Review: ‘Fetishized,’ by Kaila Yu Image Date Thursday, August 21, 2025 - 3:31 PM Description Kaila Yu’s “Fetishized” is a candid and intimate memoir of the exoticized Asian body.