“Do you want to hear a story with a terrible ending?” opens Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s second novel, irresistibly. Sure we do! She is, after all, the laureate of upended lives, as...
Read more
Proverbial life lessons abound in "The Haters," Robyn Harding’s wonderfully improbable page-turner of a thriller.“Look before you leap,” for instance. And “Don’t jump to conclusions.” “Keep your friends close and...
Read more
New England’s Geno McGahee, the mastermind behind the popular Scary Tales horror franchise, has unleashed a chilling new series. The series is available on Tubi, the streaming service renowned for its...
Read more
Our pickAmazon’s most affordable Kindle is also its most portable, with a 6-inch screen that has finally been upgraded with a higher pixel density for sharper text and support for...
Read more
Cunningham’s debut novel seems in many ways like a natural fit for the summer list. It was praised by Ron Charles for “how elegantly Cunningham explores the mind of this...
Read more
Good news, book lovers! We’ve arrived at a list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, which is sure to be endlessly dissected and debated, pored over and...
Read moreGraham Greene, who wrote so much about Catholicism in his novels, was regularly asked whether he was still a believer. It was listening to the gospel accounts of Jesus’s life,...
Read moreAnita Desai’s riddling and haunted new novel is set in motion when Bonita, a young Indian woman, meets a tricksy figure in a park in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. A student of...
Read more
Sailing books are an ideal gift for the sailor in your life. I read dozens of sailing books every year, but these are the ones that stood out. Here is...
Read more
It’s Independence Day, when Americans traditionally gather to grill meat and blow things up while they celebrate the nation’s founding — but in our recommended books this week, we’re casting...
Read more