An image-obsessed politician, a big secret and an aardvark

In 2008, Emily St. John Mandel was working a day job at a cancer-research lab in New York when she learned of Bernie Madoff’s investment scandal. “It got me thinking about how much I liked...

Many of the best new books this month ask readers to think about consequences. How can a decision one individual makes alter the course of several lives? In James McBride's latest novel, a single act...

The narrator of Jenny Offill's latest novel, Weather, is anxious about a lot of things. There's her brother, a recovering drug addict, who inserts himself into her life constantly, to her husband's dismay. There's her...

A crop of new books this month asks readers to consider their roots. Many of the authors of February’s most anticipated releases mine their histories to understand how the places they come from have shaped...

The YA author on the film adaptation of her To All the Boys trilogy, the power of rom-coms and her best love advice