John Warner

His most recent is “Hard Girls,” which is billed as a crime novel, and it is that, but it’s also a family story, a coming-of-age novel and maybe even has...

Author Evan Friss tracks the history of books and how we sell them, from back in Ben Franklin's day to the present.

Halle Butler is considered one of those writers who can most illuminate the lives and thoughts of her generation.

Novels are not instructive, but they are illustrative, and if you keep reading them, you’ll have a better understanding that there is no one way to live.

"The Wedding People" is a story of what it means to lift oneself out of one life and into another through acts of individual will and fellowship with others.

You would not mistake Ben Shattuck’s book for a novel in terms of construction, but as a whole, it is very much an entire, immersive world.

“The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing” is a gorgeous book with hundreds of full-color photos and illustrations.

A tremendously interesting, highly entertaining new book looks at the political landscape of the post-Reagan years.

Take this mixture of suspense and stir to get a page-turning new book about a former hired killer, trying to give up the game.

Reading the novel was a bracing reminder of how readily the world has snapped back to the pre-pandemic status quo without fully dealing with the fractures the pandemic period revealed.