Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens ...

PEARLY EVERLASTING (Harper, 352 pp., $28.99) is named for its beguiling tomboy narrator, who in turn is named for a plant ...

The Chronicles of Narnia are a classic of children's literature for a reason, but particularly fitting for our winter books ...

Austin loses another literary institution with the announcement that, only two years after being forced from its original ...

Christmas and cosy crime have long been strange bedfellows so curl up with these murderously good mysteries and make the most ...

On Tuesday, the Victorian Jockeys’ Association called ... “The fact industrial action seems to be the modus operandi for VJA each time they want something could be seen as highly contemptuous ...

To use a word that appears often in the novel, “Time of the Child” is a miracle. Niall Williams’ gorgeous, wry and humane book is set in the fictional Irish hamlet of Faha, where much of his ...

Victorian jockeys are set for a showdown with owners and trainers after refusing ... "The fact industrial action seems to be the modus operandi for VJA each time they want something could be seen as ...

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $35) The acclaimed writer returns with a love story and ode to books and to the ... The Pacific Ocean-set novel explores one of the ...