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 ...

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 ...

Books that achieve this transcendent state are not necessarily those that make for enthralling film or television; nor do they tend to focus on Hollywood or the filmmaking process. Instead ...

This Booker Prize-winning novel and 1990s literary sensation follows fraternal twins, Rahel and Estha, in the state of Kerala, India in 1969. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they ...

Shopping for used books is hard to beat when it comes to the dopamine department. You never know exactly what treasures you’ll uncover while sorting through the stacks… and don’t even get us ...

Your TBR list is getting longer... The simple joy of reading a book can inspire so much. While we’re turning their pages, we use our imaginations to live inside entire worlds with its characters.