May’s new releases include novels by Abraham Verghese, Miranda July and Taffy Brodesser-Akner, as well as nonfiction about ...

2 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view ...

The Washington Post’s longtime book critic Michael Dirda took a break from reading, then delved into some favorites and new ...

In “Service” by John Tottenham, a bookstore clerk struggles to write a novel that sounds a lot like “Service” by John ...

Jeanine Cummins’s “Speak to Me of Home” is a saga about three generations of women inspired by her Puerto Rican grandmother’s ...

An artist tries to memorialize a world reshaped by climate change in Susanna Kwan’s “Awake in the Floating City.” ...

Bear Witness” by Ross Halperin details a Christian charity’s attempts to make the criminal justice system serve some of the ...

Google is making it easier for you to buy digital books from Amazon, the country’s leading book retailer, than from smaller ...

Many women ‘just don’t want to’ have kids. These books don’t blame them.

In her exceptional book “Second Life,” Amanda Hess tries to make sense of the informational excess of modern childrearing.