By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...

A single lecture during her freshman year at SUNY Geneseo ignited Rachel Britton’s passion for Icelandic language and ...

At the heart of “Our Evenings” is the recognition that Britain had something beautiful once and threw it all away.

The Greek-Alexandrian poet Cavafy elevated his native city, Alexandria, as his model for how he became who he was as a poet; ...

The subject line of the email said, "What if..." Editor Amos Bridges explains how a weekly column about poetry found a place ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...

they laid the cloth out to dry.

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. In this new book by Professor John S. Tregoning he gives you the tips and tricks to get you as close to living ...