By Janny Scott Our columnist on the month’s best releases. By Sarah Lyall 21 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono ...

In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles. By Trip Gabriel Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary ...

It is understood that Gwynne’s cancer was only discovered mere weeks before her eventual death. “It is with great sadness we are sharing with you that, following her recent diagnosis with ...

“Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original “Hunger Games” novels. By Jennifer Harlan Our columnist on ...

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The couple at the center of “Perfection” have moved from an unnamed country in southern Europe to Berlin in the twenty-tens, to pursue an art-adjacent life style and careers in graphic design.

March 19, 2025 • Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in ...

This deeply disturbing account of how mobile phones are irreparably harming the next generation is both harrowing and timely The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the ...

An American man has finally woken after spending nearly 20 years in a coma. The first word Terry Wallis, 39, uttered was "Mom" after catching sight of his mother sitting by his bedside. His second ...

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year. Here, Elizabeth Brooker, 32, a theatre nurse who lives with her husband near Penryn, Cornwall, tells us about her ...

The government is confident Peter Dutton has started to unravel as it prepares to hand down a budget it initially judged was not in its best interest.

March 12, 2025 • To be a Palestinian-American writer right now can lead to a lot of expectation to focus on identity and devastation, but in her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh shares the ...