Sun City' offers evidence that widespread isolation began long before Americans became absorbed in their phones.

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Based on the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque’s sojourn on an island near modern Quebec, Allegra Goodman’s novel takes ...

Bridget Jones is back on the big screen for a fourth time as Mad About the Boy gets its cinema release. The new adaptation of author Helen Fielding's books has been called the "best sequel yet" by The ...

A selection of great reads to keep your kids occupied during half-term - and a way to support independent bookshops at the ...

Since Helen Fielding created hapless, middle-class Bridget in the mid-90s, she's divided opinion. As the fourth film is ...

The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror ...

Steven Spielberg pranked Harrison Ford when he visited the set of The Goonies by handing out copies of a biography the actor ...

Among the books being targeted is Oscar-winning actor Julianne Moore’s children’s book, “Freckleface Strawberry,” according ...

American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.