WORMBOOK

Like a lot of people, I used to listen to Tess Vigeland every weekend on Marketplace Money and was surprised and disappointed when she ann...

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, Vera Brittain's memoir about World War I-era Europe, was one of my favorite books of 2011 . My expectations of thi...

So many books try to pull off the trick of obliquely mentioning a Life Event in one of its characters' lives and then gradually unspoo...

"When summer comes around, I think many people's thoughts turn to books, among other things... You have this stretch of time in som...

Coming September 1st. Have fun scheduling around that, everyone else!  (via Wall Street Journal )

I thought I would enjoy this book, and I was delighted to be right. Julavits decided to try keeping a diary again after a hiatus of many...

I wish I had more confidently broadcast my picks at the beginning of the tourney because I could have called this one. I really had a feel...

Not only is a movie adaptation of Tom McCarthy's "Remainder" coming out this year, but there is also a new McCarthy novel du...

After a nine-month search, Spanish investigators believe they have identified the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, inexplicably chilling in a...

In British-Australian author Evie Wyld's second novel, an Australian woman running from the trauma of her past finds it more difficult ...

If you are an adult human who would willingly get on a flight of, let's say, more than an hour without anything to occupy you, please ex...

Here's Amanda Nelson of Book Riot on how to absolve yourself for owning too many books you haven't read. Some excellent points. (T...

Sit back without your wife and kids, open a liter of substandard beer and read Casey Cep's encounter with a Karl Ove Knausgaard truther ...

One of the less-megaphoned, but (to me) major slights of last week's Oscar nominations was the Academy voters not giving "Wild...

Have at it : Jesse Ball, SILENCE ONCE BEGUN Will Chancellor, A BRAVE MAN SEVEN STOREYS TALL Anthony Doerr, ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE ...