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 ...

Antisemitism in America hasn’t been the occasional result of a few bad apples. It has been pervasive and systemic. Review by John G. Turner ...

How did Margaret Atwood get to be so powerful? Her new work, “Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts,” is radiant with it — full, expansive and joyful. Power is innate: You either have it, or you don’t. No ...

“Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith’s mesmerizing new memoir, only deepens the mystery of who this iconic artist is and where her singular vision originated. I’ve long been struck by her magnetism on stage ...

All these nuggets are drawn from “Unabridged,” in which Stefan Fatsis—a journalist, broadcaster and author—reflects on his love affair with the dictionary. There are gems aplenty about subjects ...

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 ...

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 ...