In Akhil Katyal’s new book of poems, which uses playfulness as a technique to deliver an emotional payload, his narrator is an auto-ethnographer,...

A new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust.”

In this novel translated from the original Japanese, five individuals find purpose and meaning after reading books recommended to them by an enigmatic...

In this novel translated from the original Japanese, five individuals find purpose and meaning after reading books recommended to them by an enigmatic...

All’s Well (Feehi): Living a Life Guided by Grace is a poignant and introspective memoir written by Abednego Okoe Feehi Amartey in collaboration...

All’s Well (Feehi): Living a Life Guided by Grace is a poignant and introspective memoir written by Abednego Okoe Feehi Amartey in collaboration...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Our Evenings,” a sweeping story about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a...

While the author’s admiration for his subject is evident, the book also presents details of the challenges that the Tata Group faced during its...

In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the...