I approach every book-review assignment with a professional eagerness. Yet when it comes time to put words on the page, enthusiasm gives way to doubt. No matter how often I’ve done this before, I ...

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One of the most enjoyable aspects of travel is the time to read a good book, so it's not that surprising that vacations built entirely around books and authors are on the rise. Thanks to forces such ...

Tickets: $10 online at spokesman.com/northwest-passages; Northwest Passages readers also can pre-order copies of “The Friend of The Family” to pick up at the ...

As our #ReadICT Challenge celebrates a double-digit anniversary, we could not be more excited to announce a new slate of challenge categories. We’ve kept the concept the same, even after a decade, ...

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

Who better than Werner Herzog, the Bavarian mad genius, to take us on a heady time-travelling exploration on what truth might mean/be/permit? The Future of Truth is a summation of his life project, ...

The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...

Not this Baum. Asher Baum, the protagonist of Allen’s novel. Although the cover of Woody Allen’s novel What’s With Baum? riffs on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” the New York skyline in the background, a ...

It’s the season for year-end recaps. Apple Music Replay debuted yesterday and Apple Books’ Year in Review is now available too, alongside Apple’s picks for best books of 2025. Apple Books now offers ...