To my mind the vignettes in Powys’s diary are more vividly memorable than Mann’s set pieces: Powys’s fellow patient ‘the philosophic Hungarian’ Dr Szende, author of a book on Napoleon, lying dying in ...

By Alexandra Jacobs What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best.

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When that diary was published in 1942, under the pseudonym Kirsti Huurre for safety, it became one of Finland's most banned books, second only to Hitler's autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf.

Bobby saw skepticism of vaccines as a way to generate attention and controversy for himself, get book deals [and] lucrative ...

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong ...

Albertine Badolé does not remember when a worm first wriggled across her eyeball. It was many years ago, but what she can still recall is the itching and the swelling in her face. “Sometimes when I ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The crude stick-figure diagram, sketched in blue ink, details how North Korean soldiers deployed to support Russia in the Ukraine war should respond to the approach of a Ukrainian drone. One ...

One of the standout details is the nickname given to Cooper Norris (played by Jacob Lofland): "worm." But what does it mean to be a “worm” in the roughneck culture of oil drilling? And why ...