I went on rather a bookish hot streak over the long holiday break — four pretty great books in a row. Let me tell you about them! The Bo...

Man, I love reading books. This year was an especially terrific reading year (here's my Goodreads Year in Reading , if you're intere...

We can't all read everything, and often, some terrific novels slip through the cracks. Here are six I was lucky enough to catch this yea...

If you read Anthony Marra's much-acclaimed 2013 novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena — a harrowing, beautiful, brilliant novel abo...

There's no pulling punches on this one: John Irving's new novel, Avenue of Mysteries , is bad. It's my least favorite of all t...