John Warner

The capsule summary is that "The Disappearers" is about the vicious homophobia of James' home country of Jamaica during the AIDS era of the late 1980s.

The American translation making the rounds on TikTok was published by Transit Books in 2022, and somehow has gone on to sell something like 800,000 copies, according to the publisher.

Describing the thesis of journalist and podcaster Gil Duran's new book, "The Nerd Reich," makes it sound like a work of conspiracy theory.

"Brian" is a portrait of how even the smallest life can be expansive if you find your specific object of interest.

Kurt Andersen's new novel, "The Breakup," is the culmination of a trilogy that started with two earlier nonfiction books, "Fantasyland" and "Evil Geniuses."

The power of Domenico Starnone's "Trust" is in asking us to wonder if there is not some monster in every one of us.

Other readers without my baggage of anticipation may connect with "Under the Falls," but it was the first time I felt disappointed by a Richard Russo effort.

In the cover story for the July edition of The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch declared that “The End of Reading Is Here.” But if there is a problem, it is with...

J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” still sells an estimated 250,000 copies a year, and Holden Caulfield remains a cultural touchstone as an avatar for disaffected youth in America.

In “We Will See You Bleed,” Ron Currie Jr. shows that there are perhaps many more stories to be told in the Babs Dionne universe.