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 ...

Alex Foster’s first novel is about a futuristic high-speed travel system with troubling global consequences.

In the new book “Murder in the Dollhouse,” Rich Cohen delves into the story of Jennifer Dulos and her husband, Fotis, who was ...

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

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

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

New books from Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen remind us to laugh at bullies. And it’s going to be okay.

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

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