Book review: The Last Wild Horses — by Maja Lunde

The takhi, a Mongolian wild horse, also known as Przewalski’s horse, is the common bond that ties together the human beings who form the emotional core of this novel.

The subtitle to Sarah Weinman’s new true crime book, “How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free” gives you a comprehensive overview of what you can expect as a reader.

Our unnamed narrator is a writer who, finding himself on an extended layover at LAX, recognizes an old college classmate.

Our reviewer calls this a startling and original collection of short stories.

Phyllis Fischer, who possessed an “expectant, animated prettiness,” and the atmosphere, a “pregnant warm light [that] seemed dense and suspenseful as amber,” make their entrances together in the first pages of this tender, easy novel, the setting drenched … (read more)

Is Joan okay? That seems to be the question on everyone’s mind, except for Joan.

Brett Ann Stanciu, the librarian in a small Vermont town, struggled after a community member, known to be a habitual drug-user and a frequent trespasser in the library building after hours, took his own life just after he was witnessed breaking into the l … (read more)

If you’ve seen the Netflix feature film, “Don’t Look Up,” you’ve already experienced this sort of hyper-contemporary, crisis-confronting satire.

Two timelines unfurl in one city, Havana, Cuba, as two young women discover their courage, their conviction, and their loyalty.

Journalist Tabitha Lasley was determined to write about the men who worked the oil rigs in the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeen, the northeast region of the United Kingdom.

The visceral and immediate start of this book had me in its grasp from the very start.

1619, a year that isn’t well known in the annals of American history, is the starting point for this fresh and exacting examination of the history of slavery in this country, first published in The New York Times Magazine and now expanded into a book.

When we first meet Tookie, she’s in the midst of making one of the worst decisions of her life, which is, in fact, a crime, and lands her in jail.

A National Book Award finalist this year, “Matrix” is a feat of storytelling by a master of fiction.

You know ski season is right around the corner when the ski films drop, but this year, a ski book has dropped, so let’s go, let it snow.