Books

Read “What’s with Baum?” without knowing who wrote it and you might think it’s a “straightforwardly unremarkable” novel…

‘Writing for young children I am so aware that they experience giant firsts all the time…’ Childrens’ author…

Fall is the season of Big Books: the mega-hyped, the much-recommended, the written-by-celebrities, and the actually good. And…

Adolf Hitler’s defeat didn’t end prejudice against Jews in Germany or any other country. But the Third Reich did,…

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The Booker prize jury chair has bemoaned the quality of many entrants for the annual literary award, saying…

Maybe this goes against our self interest, but we think you should take a break from reading the…

Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets (Bantam) has slipped to second place in the Official UK Top 50, allowing…

This week’s lineup of new books boasts a couple of headliners in Ian McEwan and Patricia Lockwood. Whatever…

Is it an Oppenheimer world? Palantir Technologies co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp and Palantir Head of Corporate Affairs…