Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of ...

When an Oscar-winning recluse dies, her daughters and a single mother battle over her Altadena estate, confronting the ...

After years of Marie Kondo and minimalism, it’s refreshing to read Mary Randolph Carter’s latest book, “Live With the Things You Love: And You’ll Live Happily Ever After” (Rizzoli; $55).

What follows is reported in the mode of pure observation: the body washed and wrapped in gauze “like a small mummy”; the ...

Bjerkeland’s BEASTS (Levine Querido, 120 pp., paperback, $17.99), translated from the Norwegian by Rosie Hedger, is a ...

Rachel Cockerell's "Melting Point" touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from ...

Nat Cassidy's wildly entertaining novel is a superb example of how to work with clichés. When the Wolf Comes Home might sound ...

At the turn of the century, the expatriate novelist visited the U.S. for the first time in decades. He left feeling more ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

If I could only read one book for the rest of my life ... for navigating life’s challenges. Most fiction books become boring once we know how the story goes. However, the Bible contains various ...

But they all have one thing in common: they told an amazing story in just a single season. Important Note: To qualify, a franchise must only have a ... who returns home for the funeral of his ...

"There can only ... have existed since the dawn of time and that the contest between them must only abide by three hard rules: combat on Holy Ground is forbidden combat must be one on one ...