Cover story
Readers, start your engines—for a creepy trip to Christmasland
Joe Hill says it took him quite a while to find the spark that would make his riveting new horror novel roar to life. Though he ended up writing the bulk of NOS4A2 in about seven months, getting the book started wasn’t easy.
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Interviews
Echoes from an unlikely Harvard friendship
Novelist Joanna Hershon says she has always wanted to write about her father...
An electrifying new voice in fantasy
How did debut author Helene Wecker—who just published her superb...
A librarian who stands tall
With his powerful 6'7" frame and a severe case of Tourette’s...
More than one way to live a life
It’s safe to say that readers of all ages would benefit from pondering...
Features
A mother's gifts last a lifetime
How do you approach Mother’s Day? With reverence and joy, or sorrow...
Moms in fiction: The perils of parenting
Every woman facing motherhood asks herself a million different questions:...
Getaways for armchair travelers
Will you be vacationing at an exotic locale this year or staycationing in...
Columns
Audio
Elegy for the common man
Kent Haruf is a master of understatement, of spare, hauntingly simple prose...
Author Enablers
Practical advice on writing & publishing for aspiring authors
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Book Clubs
New paperback releases for reading groups
AMONG THE STARS
Celebrated nonfiction writer Peter...
Cooking
Much more than the Mafia
Omertà, the Godfather, Don Corleone? There’s a lot more to Sicily than...
Romance
Love, Victorian style
The Ladies of Lantern Street are back for a second historical adventure in...
Well Read
Rediscovering O’Hara's classic jazz age novel
Once among the best-selling novelists in the country, John O’Hara has...
Whodunit
Final showdown on the border
Since the early 1990s, T. Jefferson Parker has been lauded as the go-to guy...
Reviews
Fiction
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World Fiction
Trading lives, trading worlds
If you could guarantee your child a rich life in exchange for forfeiting...More -
Fiction
Navigating love and sacrifice in a Chechen war zone
For a first-time novelist, Anthony Marra has a lot going for him. Currently...More -
Fiction
Sisterly deception from the author of 'Big Fish'
Sisters Rachel and Helen live in Roam, a place that “felt like the...More -
Fiction
The woman behind the typewriter
Rose Baker is the kind of girl who prides herself on the knowledge that the...More -
Historical Fiction
A child disappears behind the 1950s suburban facade
Ava Lark is different. She’s divorced, an unusual state of being in...More -
World Fiction
The lasting connection of a homeland
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, Americanah,...More -
Fiction
Birdbrain revelations
An ornithologist by choice and trade, Nathan loves the world of birds, but...More -
Fiction
Along the mighty Mississippi
In 1927, the Mississippi River broke free of its banks and flooded parts of...More -
Fantasy
A corrupted coexistence
When you talk of talented writers under 40, Benjamin Percy is a name that...More -
Fiction
Creative passions reawakened
Nora Marie Eldridge, the protagonist of Claire Messud’s taut and...More -
Fiction
A delectable tale of the families we choose
Lorca, the excruciatingly vulnerable protagonist of Jessica Soffer’s...More -
Fiction
Intersection of the world-weary
Jean Thompson’s latest compelling and character-driven novel,...More -
Fiction
Leaving love's questions unanswered
In 1946 North Carolina, during a raging winter rainstorm, young Evelyn Roe...More -
Fiction
Love and the secrets of time
Fantasies that span centuries, time travel, epic romances, secret societies...More -
Short Stories
The necessity and foolishness of belief
When does an idea become a conviction, love become an obsession, interest...More -
Fiction
A childhood of grief and ghosts
For 10-year-old Helen, spending the summer cooped up in her family’s...More
Nonfiction
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Travel
Exploring our forgotten history
History buff Andrew Carroll—best known for his remarkable work in...More -
Humor
Sedaris returns to the hilarious and absurd
David Sedaris’ previous book, a collection of fictional animal stories...More -
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Outdoors
An impossible tale of Arctic survival during WWII
In Frozen in Time, his second recounting of a largely...More -
Memoir
Growing up where missiles fall
If the U.S. withdraws its combat troops from Afghanistan by late 2014 as...More -
History
Unrecognized heroes of the American Revolution
Since elementary school, we’ve been told that the American Revolution...More -
Memoir
The perils of a promised land
On August 31, 1984, Anchee Min hurtled through the night into the unknown,...More -
Science
The end is near, so what do we do?
Earth—you know, that big round thing we live on?—is in for a...More -
Memoir
Strongman in the stacks
Imagine a man who can bend a horseshoe with his hands, whose outsized...More -
Parenting
Parenting from both sides
Best-selling memoirist Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with an engaging...More
Children's
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Ages 9-12
The bravest rider on two wheels
Every night, 13-year-old Paolo Crivelli sneaks out of his villa in Florence...More -
Ages 4-8
Whale-watching for little ones
I have no doubt it’s hard to write what picture book author George...More -
Ages 4-8
A knockout picture book? Oui, oui!
Move over, Madeline—there’s a new Parisian picture-book...More -
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Ages 9-12
Delightfully creepy child's play
Holly Black, co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles and author...More -
Ages 9-12
Breaking the rules in a forgotten history
Having freedom in a legal sense doesn’t always mean you’re free...More -
Young Adult
Keeping a family together
Laurence Roach is a 15-year-old boy with a plan: save his family, no matter...More -
Young Adult
A blockbuster tale of human survival
“It wasn’t just the world that had changed with the coming of...More -
Young Adult
An incredible friendship, from America to Darfur
When 14-year-old Nawra, living in an Internally Displaced People Camp in...More -
Young Adult
Blinded by an ugly duckling's beauty
The actual solstice may be several weeks away, but Gorgeous...More
