Book Review

A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel.

“The Silence of the Choir,” a novel by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, follows 72 African refugees who have arrived in a Sicilian village.

Translated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major literary award.

Thomas Grattan’s queer coming-of-age novel “In Tongues” unfurls in the Manhattan art world at the turn of the millennium.

The departures of Reagan Arthur, who led Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, who held the top job at Pantheon and Schocken, came as a surprise to many in the company.

Several 21st-century movies were inspired by popular literature that is much older. Try this short quiz to see how many books and films you recognize.

Kevin Kwan left Singapore’s opulent, status-obsessed, upper crust when he was 11. He’s still writing about it.

In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.

An assault led to Chanel Miller’s book, “Know My Name.” But she had wanted to write children’s books since she was a child. She’s done that now with “Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All.”

Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.