The debut novel from Deborah Benoit of North Adams, Massachusetts, combines her love of gardening and mysteries.

In Khawla Ibraheem’s one-woman play a mother tries to go about her life in Gaza—including preparing for the possibility that ...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love ...

Pope Francis gives a vivid and compelling account of an inspiring testimony to faith-filled hope and the power of the Rosary.

Women buried in a lavish grave 5,000 years ago wore beaded garments, suggesting they held positions of power. The beads could ...

Charlotte Wood’s novel, a Booker Prize finalist, follows an atheist whose mysterious path led her to live among nuns in a ...

The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in ...

Superbloom,” by Nicholas Carr, and “The Sirens’ Call,” by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to ...

The Guggenheim fellow’s debut novel follows a director reluctantly staging an Arabic translation of “Hamlet” in Palestine.

Award-winning author Barbara Nickless is known for two mystery series, one set in Denver, the other in Chicago.

Our columnist on four stellar new releases. Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first ...

The author's account of her husband's sudden death (and what comes after) is a new classic in the literature of widowhood.