Here are a few of the books that stuck with us and became personal favorites this year. Perhaps they will stick with you, too ...

Culture writer Cat Zhang says the New York Review of Books reissue of Jack the Modernist would make the perfect gift. The novel is set in the early ’80s and is about the slow dissolution of a love ...

Would I at least read more difficult novels? The unrest about smartphones and social-media addiction has been growing for ...

With traditional publishing cooling on historicals right now, self-published authors like Richards are filling the breach.

Last week, Simon Heffer revealed his list of artistic bêtes noires, from Warhol to Woolf. Now you have come up with your own ...

Margaret Atwood is an indefatigable time traveler. The prolific Canadian author, perhaps best known for “The Handmaid’s Tale” and its phenomenally successful Hulu series adaptation, has written 17 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Attorney Mickey Haller — known as Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer character — believes “the proving ground” is the courtroom, where he makes his “final stand” on a case, and was at one time “sacred ...

Of all the improbable coincidences of the 20th century, the fact that Winston Churchill happened to be in the New York Stock Exchange gallery in October 1929, watching one of the worst market ...

“I’ll come back!” shouts Eli Sharabi to his wife and two daughters as Hamas terrorists drag him through the front door of his little house in Kibbutz Be’eri, a hitherto blissful community 3 miles from ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

It took Kiran Desai nearly 20 years to write her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. I mean this as a sincere tribute when I say I'm amazed it only took her that long. Desai's near 700-page ...