Charles Baxter’s novel charges along so boisterously that it’s easy to forget the author is batting around some of the weightiest concerns of human experience. John le Carré’s son Nick ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

This beginning chapter book is a good fit for children in early elementary who are reading independently or as a family read aloud. “I Feel Safe” by David McPhail. A young child is startled ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ruins are a theme in this week’s recommended books, from the collapse of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie empire to the lives ...

She didn’t want it to be the kind of store where customers dash in and out with book purchases. “We really want this to be a gathering space,” Sanders said of the building that is taking shape as The ...

(Jonny Hodder/CBC) The yellow sign that hangs above an iconic downtown St. John's comic book shop has lured people in through the doors for two decades, and soon it will hang in the home of a ...

The former school system superintendent caused a firestorm over a range of issues during his tenure, including the removal of more than 30 book titles from the county’s school libraries after ...

Horror novels are a different proposition. To truly scare a reader, a book must weave a more delicate web of persuasion and misdirection, depending on the power of your imagination to fill in the ...