Lovers of great books will take any excuse to drop back into resonant scenes and stories. They happily reread old favorites in print, listen to them afresh on audiobook or dip into summaries that ...

If you’re a fair-weather Handmaid’s Tale fan, be warned. There is an awful lot of this memoir to get through before we reach the point where Margaret Atwood publishes the book, let alone sees it ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of long-running squabbles between writers (all of whom ...

“The water around her is icy as winter and it grips her chest like she owes it money,” Kris Farmen writes on the first page of “Meridian,” the third and final novel of his series “Seasons of Want and ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge tests your memory of random facts and information you may have picked up, ...