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 ...

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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 ...

Now a widely celebrated voice in crime fiction, she just launched her fifth book, “The Examiner.” By Sarah Lyall Our mystery columnist reviews books by Scott Phillips, Morgan Richter ...

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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 ...

Our columnist takes a look at recent books by Sofia Samatar, Vajra Chandrasekera and Emet North. By Amal El-Mohtar Disappointed by swipe culture and, perhaps, reality, some readers pine for the ...