When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Olivia Waite, the Book Review’s romance fiction columnist, writes queer and historical romance, fantasy and critical essays ...

This book cover image released by Ten Speed Graphic shows “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City” by Kay Sohini (Ten Speed Graphic ...

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our ...

For decades, there was one path to becoming a successful African writer: Getting a book deal in the publishing meccas of New York ... for The Times, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He covers a broad ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Amid the inevitable violence and horror, there are the equally inevitable heroes and villains, but for everyone the world has ...

Media organizations are preparing for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration. By David Enrich and Katie Robertson David Enrich’s latest book ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...