Simon Critchley’s new book approaches its subject from many angles, traveling from the Middle Ages to punk rock.

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

In one passage in the introduction to “Stranger Than Fiction,” Frank addresses books about World War II, Hans Erich Nossack’s “The End,” which details the firebombing of Hamburg ...

(And list lovers alert: He includes even more novels to consider in an appendix.) In one passage in the introduction to “Stranger Than Fiction,” Frank addresses books about World War II, Hans Erich ...