In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure ...

Fantasy epics, pastoral classics and family dramas provide something to sink your teeth into on cold evenings.

How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game’ by C. Thi Nguyen. C. Thi Nguyen loves games, said Dan Piepenbring in Harper’s. In ...

A review of the Sundance family matinee premiere FING! with Taika Waititi as a bumbling villain out to steal a rare exotic creature from a young girl ...

Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

A criminal barrister turned psychological thriller writer is the perfect contestant for this show.

Brad Meltzer’s adult novels are known for fast and furious plots that stay on a breathless course to the end, as does his first thriller in four years, “The Viper: A Zig & Nola Novel.” Meltzer ...

Some of Matthew Pearl’s novels have centered on mysteries surrounding famous writers—the death of Edgar Allan Poe; the last, unfinished work of Charles Dickens—while others have featured famous ...

Departure(s) explores several of Barnes' lifelong obsessions — mortality, memory, and time. It's slim but weighty, digressive ...

It’s no mystery: The Harlan Coben thriller mill will continue to churn no matter what happens with Warners-wooing Netflix, where the “Coben-verse” has generated close to a dozen series, including the ...

A family of adults goes on vacation. Dysfunction abounds. Critic Page Laws reviews a Virginia Beach production of Lydia Diamond’s hit.

Wild Dark Shore' by Charlotte McConaghy, and 'My Friends' by Fredrik Backman," Peter Tomaras writes in the first installment ...