Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Stephen King's "Never Flinch" is one of the best beach reads for summer 2025, featuring recurring King character Holly Gibney. Summer is for going to the beach, hitting the pool and soaking up the sun ...

The year 2025 hasn’t started out great. We’ve seen foreign wars, climate change, racist rhetoric, and political polarization escalate over the last several months, making many of us angry, burned out, ...

New year… new bookshelf! At least that’s how we feel around here; nothing quite beats the thrill of a new book season.

How we educate our youth is changing. The OECD is now prioritizing student and teacher well-being. UNESCO has called for a “new social contract for education that will help us build peaceful, just, ...

When life gets overwhelming, the kids’ schedules have gone haywire, or when I’ve just finished a novel that gave me the biggest book hangover, my next read calls for something that just makes me feel ...

A call for the revitalization of devoted reading is also a celebration of writers who may be in danger of being forgotten.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Actresses Irene Maiorino and Alba Caterina Rohrwacher on the television series "My Brilliant Friend," based on a novel by Elena ...

Like all great crime writers, Lou Berney knows that a ripping story is only as good as the characters that make it rip. With his new novel “Crooks,” Berney has created a family saga about a small-time ...

The Global Times "Reading through the Seasons" China-South Korea Literature Salon was held on Wednesday in Beijing.