Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left ...

Children are taught that doctors are trustworthy healers, so there’s a special sense of betrayal when they inflict pain.

In The City Changes Its Face, McBride has us rooting for the two damaged characters at its heart ...

Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that ...

Schlink is best known in the United States for his 1997 novel “The Reader,” or the 2008 film of the same title.

Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis David Geselbracht | Douglas & McIntyre $24.95 | 248pp. We are all drowning in bad news these days, from Trumpian tariff threats and imperialist ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

Laments about the state of education are arguably as old as education is, or close to it. And they’ve always been a waste of time. That’s because knowledge isn’t bestowed on us as mu ...

When it comes to Thoroughbreds, Arthur B. Hancock III has courted the bastard. Never much for floating the mainstream, he has celebrated in many a winner's circle, while knowing firsthand how wild ...

What’s for lunch? You probably know at breakfast what you’re having a few hours later. Maybe a breast of chicken sauteed in ...