For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance.

Joseph O’Connor’s novel “The Ghosts of Rome” explores a World War II resistance network based in the Vatican.

In this forceful and lucid memoir the author details the impact of her father’s crimes on the family and her decision to never forgive or forget

In Anne Tyler’s new novel, a socially inept mother faces hurdles in her personal, professional and family lives.

Three generations of women from a well-connected, wealthy Iranian family navigate the different faces of exile in a dynamic and complex debut novel

In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a...

An estranged mother and son confront their past, in the new novel from the author of Union Atlantic

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Good Dirt” weaves together grief, suspense and the story of a jar made by an enslaved potter generations earlier.

Allegra Goodman’s novel “Isola” tells the story of a 16th-century Frenchwoman’s extraordinary fight for survival.