In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Kenan Orhan’s novel about a woman whose bathroom is transformed into a Turkish prison cell. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the ...

The Allure and Peril of the Appalachian Trail’ explores the trail’s history, nature and dangers through Steve Carpenter’s ...

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...

America’s 250th anniversary provides occasion for a road trip. The author seeks to prove you can know your history and still ...

From 'The Crying of Lot 49' to 'Vineland,' discover why Thomas Pynchon's famously 'difficult' novels can actually be for any ...

Review: Ian McKellan and Michaela Coel deliver two brilliant, diametrically opposed performances in Steven Soderbergh’s ...

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The International Dictionary of Psychology opined in 1989 that consciousness was “fascinating but elusive” and “nothing worth reading has been written on it.” I disagree. Consciousness isn’t entirely ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The woman who became Judy Blume was born in 1938 as Judith Sussman, the much-wanted second child and only daughter of an upwardly-mobile middle-class Jewish family in northern New Jersey. In “Judy ...

In the book world, Colleen Hoover’s about as polarizing as an author can get. Some readers laud her as a literary powerhouse, a mainstay of the romance genre. Others consider her books — and her ...