These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books. By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris This year, the best-seller lists were again ...

Reader in 18th-century Literature and Director of Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature, Queen Mary University of London Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on ...

Given that the U.K.’s wolves and moose expired long ago, the country’s largest land predator today is, somewhat embarrassingly, the European badger. Other aggressive species include the horsefly, a ...

This year, for the first time since 2015, I’m not doing a “best graphic novels of the year” list. There are too many great works out there to read, too many ways to evaluate how they are “best,” and ...

It wouldn’t be mid-to-late December without a series of “best of” articles coming out from every outlet that covers culture—and who am I to buck that trend? I get to read dozens of books every year ...