Need a summer read? Here are 17 books from our experts If you’re lucky enough to have a quiet place to retreat from the heat this summer, we’ve got a symphony of suggestions for novels and ...

By Mattie Kahn A More Freewheeling Book Lives Inside Al Pacino’s Memoir From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.” ...

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Following a bereaved three-generation family over the course of one idyllic Nordic summer, Charlie McDowell's film version of Tove Jansson's 1972 novel is high on comfort and low on incident.

By Ruth Franklin In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan ...

At one point in The Summer Book, Charlie McDowell’s infinitely gentle adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel about a small girl, her father and grandmother spending the short Finnish summer on one ...

Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel “The Summer Book” wasn’t a memoir, but it was a memory piece of sorts — its slender narrative of largely unspoken grief and healing imbued with, and enriched by ...

Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star ...

National Geographic mines 130 years of photography to showcase what it means to be female. 15 life-changing experiences in North America’s national parks 15 life-changing experiences in North ...

In his new book, “War,” Woodward draws sharp contrasts between the Biden administration’s leadership and the dangers presented by Trump.

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