Digital browsing now shapes how most readers discover books. That means your cover has to make an instant impression—often at ...

A thinly disguised portrait of Anthony Blunt, exposed in 1979, this intriguing glimpse into the secretive world of the often ...

In a conversation with Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb Roy at the Dehradun Literature Festival held at the end of last year, Ajay Jain ...

Margaret Atwood’s look back at her life and career shows readers that building and maintaining an independent mind is a full ...

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.

Sequel to Tank Water, Michael Burge’s Dirt Trap continues a rural noir series imagined through a queer lens. Journalist James Brandt uncovered homophobic attacks in his hometown of Kippen in the first ...

Auslander, vividly up to date with recent events such as the Yom Kippur attack in Manchester, is a lovingly evoked story of a family’s experience of “escape and exile”, leading to Moritz’s somewhat ...

As many mysteries do, “His & Hers” opens with a tragic scene. In the woods surrounding Dahlonega, Georgia, a dead woman, ...

To this day, I wish I’d asked why the longtime Democrat was at right-leaning Hoover, but this was Barry Diller. Everyone wants to talk to him. Which in a sense explains this review of his excellent ...

Outraged at what he deemed a literary injustice, Malcolm Cowley used his influence as a consulting editor at Viking and a well-connected critic to give Faulkner his due. In 1944-45 he published a ...

With this brilliantly simple conceit, Markovits launches his hero on a midlife odyssey, a cross-country road trip that ...

Psychiatrist Shruti Mutalik reflects on “The Correspondent,” a new novel set in Annapolis that explores themes of loneliness ...