A physics student calls on Angela Merkel to help him save the world in this one-sentence onslaught from a ‘master of the apocalypse’

The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an existential threat to the...

The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an existential threat to the...

“Us Fools,” by Nora Lange, is a tale of two sisters living through the diseased expanse of the country’s recent history.

Discuss our November book club selection, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel García Márquez, with the Book Review.

The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.

Esther Kinsky reflects on the nature of seeing in a book about an old cinema in Hungary.

In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David Browne tracks three decades of folk, blues, rock and jazz below 14th Street.

The Bangles singer unearths a gem and teases her next book, a follow-up to The Bird Has Flown.

In “Freedom Braids” and “The Magic Callaloo,” young girls follow cornrowed maps to escape slavery.