The middles of novels are very hard to write, but the middle of stories are where everything changes,’ says the author.

Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which have previously been published in The New Yorker and elsewhere ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor. By Max Strasser Our columnist on the ...

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Jenna Bush Hager says her March Read With Jenna pick is a book as “beautiful as where it is set.” “Wait for Me” by Amy Jo Burns unfolds partly in Appalachia, where the author grew up. Burns is from ...

Several best-selling books will make way for returning TV shows and new ones in 2026. March will see the arrival of a rarer type of book adaptation — the second season of The Last Thing He Told Me ...