John Warner

Every so often, an author in translation with a hit novel series in their home country becomes a fresh phenomenon in the U.S.

My annual reading resolutions are a declaration of hope, an attempt at refreshing and refurbishing stale practices.

We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Mass market paperbacks were primarily positioned as portable, even disposable, low cost and even lowbrow as they...

When I tallied the contenders for my fiction Biblioracle Book of the Year Awards, I counted 32 contenders. Here are 10.

These are books I think are very much worth readers’ time for the reasons articulated in the award titles.

Listening to Percival Everett at a recent convention, I tried to piece together something concrete I could take away, a real-world practice of genius. I think I may have noticed...

Maybe you want a gift for the book lover in your life that's a little extra special, the kind of gift that will endure past the pleasure of reading a...

There's something undeniably compelling when a story manages to shake your hold on what is and isn't possible, what is and isn't real. "The Sofa," by Sam Munson, managed to...

Eliot's wife is dying of cancer and she orders him out of the house. He tries to navigate what's next in Ann Packer's new novel.

The novel, based on true events, is set in the mid-19th century on a small Scottish island where most residents live a kind of subsidence existence.