The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters. By Alexandra Alter The mass market paperback, light in the hand and ...

2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder ...

January 29, 2026 • The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, and circles back to it again ...

An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

Laura Dave brings the suspense in her follow-up to "The Last Thing He Told Me." ...