During WWI, Britain's need for local industrialization pushed its colonies, including India, to establish manufacturing ...

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett’s recent wave of ...

Jacquie Buttriss is a biographer, memoirist, educational and children’s author of 61 books, published by Macmillan, Hodder and Stoughton, Harper-Collins and others. She has had two Sunday Times ...

With 5 teens of our own, Jackie and I are always looking for great YA books. Thats why we gathered all of the best fun books ...

Author and Cemetery Dance publisher Richard Chizmar, meanwhile, mined the isolation and “closed off existence” of deep Appalachia for the horror tale Memorials (Gallery, Oct.). These and other ...

One key takeaway from this book is that much of what we’ve heard or "know" about these women is based on rumor or propaganda. The author does a great job of separating fact from fiction, showing that ...

The book also won the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction and was named a Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2023 among several other accolades. Kuang’s other novels include “The Poppy War” ...

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Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood. By The New York Times Books Staff As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly ...

so it’s unsurprising that Olga Tokarczuk followed up her Brobdingnagian epic “The Books of Jacob” by revisiting a classic work of fiction. But the Polish Nobel Prize-winner didn’t choose ...