A story for young readers about a rescue dog and a young cheetah is inspired by real-world zoo practices.

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

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You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...

We often treat the milestones of adulthood like a series of boxes waiting to be checked, but for many, the blueprints of our lives are still drawn in the ink of our teenage years. In Chasing Summer, a ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

“Rebecca Newberger Goldstein isn’t the first philosopher to argue that we are driven by the quest to justify our existence,” said John Kaag in The Atlantic. But in her stirring new book, the ...

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...