The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we learn, encounter and confront ...

I had three filters: screen out what’s inaccurate, impractical, and uninteresting,” Grant wrote of his book recommendations.

In Adam Haslett’s “Mothers and Sons,” crisis reconnects an asylum lawyer and his estranged mother, the co-founder of a women’s retreat.

As a librarian who both loves gossip and has anxiety, the best place for me to get my tittle-tattle fix is within the pages ...

He developed a reading habit during his teenage years and has honed it over the years, encouraging him to get into writing.

In 2022, the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain was banned from many school districts because some found ...

In his book “American Oasis,” Kyle Paoletta explores the region’s environmental and cultural struggles and what they mean for the rest of the nation. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second ...

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.

Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that ...

4. “Caleb and Kate”: William Steig begins with a husband storming out in the middle of an argument with his wife, Kate. Just as Caleb finally calms down and readies himself to go home and make amends, ...

The lesson: Beware unintended consequences ... Laura Numeroff set off a whole franchise of books about insatiable animals, but the moral remains the same. Mouse, moose, dog, human – for some ...