I was looking for a topic for this column last week when it occurred to me that I had been staring it in the face, in the news and in the Facebook feed that, like for many, my days begin and end with.

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Arcadia publishing director Anne Perry has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to three books by debut author Lenora Woods in an exclusive submission. Woods’ fantasy-tinged, table-top gaming ...

Before rescinding the March decision on removing books on transgender topics to protect children, the board heard about six speeches from audience members opposed to censorship. There were audience ...

Nine months of starlight and sea air—chess, books, sewing, the sextant and the nautical almanac, bibulous pit stops in scenic ports—ended abruptly one March morning when a sperm whale smashed a hole ...

Her previous works include the fiction books Bombay Wali and Other Stories and Land for Fatimah. She has also worked in journalism, teaching, literary curation and the non-profit sector.

What books are on your night stand? This is constantly in flux, but right this minute Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “To Save and to Destroy” and Marie-Helene Bertino’s “Exit Zero.” ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

Peter Swanson’s latest novel of suspense presents Thom Graves, a 50-ish tenured professor of English, and his wife, Wendy, a published poet, living in a fine house in coastal Massachusetts, with ...