Literature

A book club is a convenient excuse to host a party, maybe read a good book, and share good food, drinks, and fun with friends. My book clubs have evolved…

So many great books are “book club friendly” these days, and Deborah Goodrich Royce’s new thriller Reef Road is an exciting example. This new fiction recalls the beginning of the…

This fall, gather your book club on the porch and cozy up to Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan. This funny and charming new novel tells the story of…

Best advice? Go into treatment with a sense of gratitude. Take care of yourself and surround yourself with people you love. Don’t put off seeing a doctor if you feel…

Having a memorable summer doesn’t mean you need to book a flight: you might take flight with a travel book instead. Or to inspire your future travels, nothing beats a good travel book. Either way, our list includes some of this summer’s best travel books to stimulate your imagination and get you moving.

English novelist Anna Sewell was bedridden the last six years of her life as she scrawled out and dictated the only book she would ever complete. She lived just five months after publication, long enough to delight in the instant success of one of the best–selling and most beloved books of all time.

Ukraine is steeped in literary tradition. Female authors Maria Matios, Iren Rozdobudko, and Lina Kostenko are among their country’s living legends—and their lives are just as interesting and intense as their books, many of which have been translated into English. One such writer is Oksana Zabuzhko.

You wake up in the morning, slump out of bed, shuffle to the bathroom, and look in the mirror. What do you see?

Valentine’s Day is the solstice of the season of love and the aspiration for a perfect date night. However, do heart-shaped boxes of chocolate and bouquets of red roses inspire the same sense of epic love that romance novelists write about? Those of us who are busy scripting our personal love stories or waiting to begin our own next chapter need look no further for the spirit of romance in the pages of a romance novel. Here are two of our favorites.

Reading is an adventure that opens up your horizons…but you have to see a way to making the time. If you want to read more, the solution is not to…

And What Dylan Thomas, Some Other “Friends,” and I Think About It I WONDER WHETHER IT WILL SNOW this winter. I’m new to these parts, and am told it hardly…

Elysian provides a peak into Cold Noses & Warm Hearts, Two, a sequel to her bestselling book of the same name, courtesy of our own Managing Editor, Laurie Wiles. Coming in 2022.