This holiday season, give the gift of a great book - a timeless present that sparks the imagination, inspires, and lasts long ...

A good historical novel has the power to transport us back to a different time and make it seem as real and immediate as our ...

From a fresh take on 'Huck Finn' to an epic romantic odyssey, these page-turners should be on your short list.

A British police officer was killed, and 10 demonstrators were wounded. In “My Friends,” a Libyan man named Khaled who was ...

The Twelve by Liz Hyder (Pushkin Press) On holiday in Wales, Kit’s younger sister vanishes, along with all trace that she ever existed. Only fellow teenager, local boy Story, remembers her.

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

We know novels have the power to take us to different places and time periods. And with biographical historical fiction books ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from ...

Historical epics once ruled the box office, reliably taking home both cash and trophies each year. That's changed over the past decade or so; much of Hollywood's big money now goes into either science ...

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Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The Winnipeg-based writer spoke with CBC Books about why she set her novel in 1869 in Red River, as a family reckons with ...