Before “Midnight at the Cinema Palace” was done, before it even had a publisher, novelist Christopher Tradowsky’s debut novel ...

Sure, you can survive a shipwreck, but have you ever tried surviving a marriage? That’s what Sophie Elmhirst contemplates in her riveting, feisty “A Marriage at Sea.” It’s a narrative nonfiction look ...

On “CBS Sunday Morning” last month, novelist Anne Tyler said she’s working on a book but she may never publish again. She might have been joking but, if she wasn’t, a new novel could make fans of the ...

Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!” is a line famously spoken by the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This year, writers are repeating the past — a lot — with ...

Publishers say 3 million books are published each year in the U.S. The Minnesota Star Tribune has space to cover maybe 300 or ...

A. The painting its heroine, Grace, copies. B. Grace’s cousin, Charles, who disappears and then (allegedly) returns, more than a decade later. C. The idea that we are all constantly changing and that ...

If your name is Kathleen West and you’re part of a class action suit or you’ve been mailed a coupon for new gutters or offered an exciting opportunity for a time-share in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, ...

Whether there’s a plane trip, a hammock, a corner of a library or a bus ride to work in your immediate future, July has something for you to read while you are there. Two of the books we can’t wait to ...

If “This Dog Will Change Your Life” were a dog breed, it would be a border collie: sweet, fun to be around, a little hyper. The book comes from Elias Weiss Friedman, who bills himself as the Dogist on ...

First things first: Susan Choi’s “Flashlight,” her first novel since National Book Award-winning “Trust Exercise,” is almost nothing like “Trust Exercise.” There’s no reason it should be, of course, ...

If “Food Person” were a menu item, it would be something like a BLT or mac and cheese: cozy, simple and fun. Adam Roberts, who has a food blog called “The Amateur Gourmet” and a podcast called “Lunch ...