When I call Fredrik Backman from halfway across the world – he in his Stockholm apartment, me in my New York one – he says something I don’t expect. The “Anxious People” author is soft ...

Missing Fredrik Backman's signature moving. Welcome back, book lovers! It's time for another installment of the Woman’s World Book Club, where we share our five favorite new reads.

Bestselling Swedish writer Fredrik Backman says he never struggled with his confidence as much as he did writing his new book, My Friends. In fact, he was seriously considering retiring.