The 12 books below have nothing in common except for the fact that their advocates have shared them time after time, and ...

Siang Lu has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his absurdist, ‘strikingly new’ novel about dictators in parallel ...

Some superhero movies go for real-world relevance. The Fantastic Four: First Steps succeeds by doubling down on whimsical, ...

The Nigerian writer Amos Tutvola wove Yoruba legends of spirits and magic into quirky modern novels that mix the real and the ...

An article released by the Argentina-based group Cuadernos de Negacion that deals with the rise of the extreme right. More specifically, it deals critically with the use of the term “fascist” to ...

In April Boulware's novel The House's Daughter, she explores the trauma of growing up isolated in a cult-like environment, ...

Tucked away in a corner of Souderton, Pennsylvania sits a thrifter’s paradise so vast and value-packed that it feels like you’ve stumbled upon a secret financial loophole in the universe of retail ...

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth” inspired culinary luminaries like Alice Waters and Samin Nosrat. Does it matter that ...

Why should today’s readers check out an 1838 book about an American man’s increasingly bizarre and terrifying journey to the ...

A fascinating and disturbing read about the tech industry from journalist Kara Swisher, who has interviewed virtually all the ...

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The Tilting House” is an affecting and sometimes amusing coming-of-age novel set in a country that few have had the ...