Some books feel like they are written for a very specific moment in life. You come across them at the perfect moment, and they speak directly to the version of you that exists in that instant — gifting advice, comfort or simply the feeling of being seen.
Other books are timeless.
The old adage instructs that we must never judge a book by its cover. Instead, we must judge it by the contents of its pages.
If we judge Elif Batuman’s 2017 bildungsroman, “The Idiot,” by its...
The synopsis of “Bright Young Women” had many words that piqued my interest, including “murder,” “sorority house” and “serial killer.” After some research, I learned that the book’s murderer and his crimes were inspired by Ted Bundy, whose infamous killing spree took the lives of two sorority women and brutally attacked two others, all from Florida State University.
A murder mystery set on a private island sounds like the typical plot of the average thriller book. However, Alex Michaelides, the bestselling author of “The Silent Patient,” revamped the genre with his newest release, “The Fury.”
Author Charles Rowan Beye was worried his newest memoir, My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey, would be pigeonholed along with other gay novels, he said.
“The title of the book bothers me...
