The Netflix series Graveyard, through its gripping accounts, tackles the still dispassionate treatment of the growing cases ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Words for Love, and Comfort, are the first two titles of the new creative Poetry Prescription series... eight pocket-sized gift books containing carefully curated ‘prescriptions in verse ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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Therefore, everything changes for A.J. when, one night, his treasured book of poems gets stolen. Shortly afterward, an unlikely face arrives at his bookstore, offering him a whole new future ahead.

Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...