Romance is the heart beat of human emotion, and few matters capture it higher than a nicely-written romantic novel. For newbie readers, entering into the world of romantic fiction is…
How To Stay Sustainable With Producing Paper Books? Examining environmentally friendly book printing demonstrates the significant influence the publishing industry has on the environment. Offices consume a lot of paper—more…
The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
If you read your way through childhood, you’ll feel a flash of recognition when you meet Abi, the 11-year-old heroine of Hilary McKay’s utterly enchanting new novel, THE TIME OF…
HOME BEFORE DARK By Riley Sager 384 pp. Dutton. $27. Maggie Holt was famous as a kid — famous because her father, Ewan, wrote a blockbuster best seller chronicling the family’s experience living…
ALICE KNOTTBy Blake Butler Blake Butler’s fourth novel opens with a surreal scene, caught on video, in which a real piece of art is being systematically obliterated: Two anonymous figures remove…
IMPERFECT WOMENBy Araminta Hall As unkind as the three main characters of Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women” can be to one another — envious, judgmental, competitive and spiteful — their internecine meanness…
EYEWITNESS On June 13, 2018, Jacob Soboroff, a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, prepared to visit Casa Padre, a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, where nearly 1,500 migrant boys,…
THE INDOMITABLE FLORENCE FINCHThe Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWsBy Robert J. Mrazek Luckily, Carl Engelhart kept a journal. As a prisoner of…
CHASING THE LIGHTWriting, Directing, and Surviving “Platoon,” “Midnight Express,” “Scarface,” “Salvador,” and the Movie GameBy Oliver Stone Whenever Oliver Stone makes movies about real people, he ends up in hot water.…
TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACYThe Seductive Lure of AuthoritarianismBy Anne Applebaum Even before the coronavirus began to test our social order, the world was experiencing another plague, a pandemic of authoritarianism. Over the…
Everyone knows you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but many of us do it anyway. In the case of Joan Bauer’s 14th novel, RAISING LUMIE (Viking,…
