In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second novel, a teenager in 1980 New York endures a parade of strange events and a pack of ...

While Karissa Chen’s sweeping epic, “ Homeseeking ,” centers on war, love and family, more than anything it’s about the ...

Hal Brands is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a senior fellow at the ...

Ahead of the publication of “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” the horror novelist spends a weekend home in Charleston.

From Sally Rooney to Richard Powers, the authors we spent time with this year provided a lot of quotable wit and wisdom.

Adam Haslett’s new novel follows an immigration lawyer whose work distracts him from the pain of loneliness.

The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard Schlink follows a man trying to rescue a girl from the grip of neo-Nazis.

New releases include a gentle love story by Jonathan Evison and Markus Zusak’s memoir about rescue dogs. Shorter winter days ...

The former president, who died at 100 on Sunday, was a prolific writer, especially in the decades after he left the White House.

Four decades in, our bookshelves serve as an index of our bound lives. “I’m Dawn,” she said when I sat down with some friends in the college cafeteria. Then she added, “It’s a very sexy name.” ...

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World and author of the memoir “An Open Book,” the Edgar Award-winning critical study "On Conan Doyle," and ...

Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. This week, we present readers’ New Year’s ...