In a new memoir, Hanif Kureishi reflects on a life transformed since he lost the use of his arms and legs.

Okorafor’s spellbinding new novel follows Zelu, a once-struggling writer grappling with power, privilege, agency and art ...

Our columnist on four stellar new releases. Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first ...

“Picturing the Border” collects photographs of the United States-Mexico boundary dating back to the 1960s.

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century ...

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.

In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.

In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

The Japanese author Uketsu, according to his biography, “only ever appears online, wearing a mask and speaking through a ...

Unless, of course, there is a morsel of morality hidden within each interaction, waiting to be unlocked. Once we figure out ...

This week’s literary quiz tests your knowledge of films inspired by nonfiction books or deeply autobiographical novels.

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War ...