John Warner

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.

Patriotism means we have a responsibility to understand the country's past, and these books explore our messy history.

"Dad Had a Bad Day" is the story of Ned, a married, recently laid-off suburbanite with a young child. It's a fine train wreck of a novel.

Modernization is the practice of updating the cultural references in a book in order to make them more immediately current and relatable to the present-day audience.

The book sits on an intriguing question and premise: What does it mean that dogs have essentially always been present in the art created by humans? What is going on...

In "Wifehouse," Sonya Walger’s prose is lyrical and evocative, an accrual of fine-grained observations that bring life to the page.