Amity Gaige’s thriller was inspired by a real-life tragedy along the Appalachian Trail.

In “Paradise Logic,” Sophie Kemp narrates the romantic misadventures of an oblivious Brooklyn woman looking for her “perfect ...

Eliza Kennedy’s novel about an adulterous pair is a fresh take on middle-class marital malaise. “Marriage is … well, it’s a ...

In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of his family and its place in American history. David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko ...

Being accessible, and a generalist, is clearly something Mosley admires. One set that takes up considerable real estate on ...

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Christopher Summerfield’s book “These Strange New Minds” offers a lucid intellectual history of AI and argues that chatbots are more than clever copycats. Joshua Hammer’s “The ...

In “When the World Closed its Doors,” Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman examine one of the lasting legacies of the coronavirus ...

Graydon Carter’s book party, hosted by Mike Bloomberg, felt like a throwback to the golden age of media soirées, with guests ...

Leigh Haber is an independent editor, writer and publishing strategist who for 10 years ran Oprah’s Book Club. Emma Donoghue is a master of locked room fiction. In her 2010 blockbuster ...

Should her father ever disappear, Hase has instructions to retrieve a specific volume of a specific book from a Berkeley library, but finding it leads to more questions. In an alternate timeline ...

(And you’ll have to track down a copy to find out — her comment is unprintable in The Washington Post). The book is breezy and dense with jokes, especially when Vilanch writes about projects ...