“Kiki’s Delivery Service” also has a movie adaptation, but the book and movie feel entirely different. In the movie, there ...

So I am a word guy. I love words and language. The new book by Stefan Fatsis, “Unabridged - the Thrill (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary,” is exactly my kind of book. When the author was a boy he ...

Paul Burch assigned himself a difficult and audacious writing task: creating a fictional account of the life of country music ...

Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

In a new collection, Etgar Keret offers tales of humanity in the strangest of circumstances. By Dan Chaon Dan Chaon is the author of eight works of fiction. His most recent novel, “One of Us,” will be ...

At one point in The Summer Book, Charlie McDowell’s infinitely gentle adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel about a small girl, her father and grandmother spending the short Finnish summer on one of the ...

Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award winner, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its many forms. By Shahnaz Habib Shahnaz Habib is the author of “Airplane Mode: ...