This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Novelists committed to depicting contemporary life face an unprecedented challenge in ...

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Tana French and Colson Whitehead conclude their most recent trilogies; and more. Credit... Supported by By Miguel Salazar and ...

The beginning of the year is a great time to pick up a new book. Many avid readers often find themselves setting up reading goals on GoodReads and similar cataloging sites as a goal or resolution.

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

There’s never really a bad time to be reading comics, but 2025 proved to be an especially strong year for the industry. From DC’s Absolute Universe and Marvel’s Ultimate Universe to Skybound’s Energon ...

It wouldn’t be mid-to-late December without a series of “best of” articles coming out from every outlet that covers culture—and who am I to buck that trend? I get to read dozens of books every year ...

I’m a stand-up comedian. Not a book critic. I don’t want to be a book critic. And writing about books is really fucking hard. I don’t want to recap the plots or write shit like “languorous prose.” I ...

Fans of Brandon Sanderson should already be aware of two things. The first is that he's always working on something, and the second is that sometimes that something may be a secret project. The latter ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nearly a decade after his 2016 novel, “All That Man Is,” was passed over for the Booker Prize, David Szalay has ...

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Canadian-born, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker prize for his novel, Flesh. It follows the ...

Even its biggest supporters didn’t think “The Correspondent” would become one of the year’s breakout books. The heroine is a grouchy, 73-year-old retired lawyer at odds with her daughter and her ...

The plot, like those of Bennett’s other books, can meander; at times it is confusingly opaque. The narrator has a post-breakup correspondence with Xavier and exchanges emails with her former ...