Williams came to write “Mary Lou’s Mass” to capture her feeling of suffering—and its apotheosis.

Emma Donoghue's new novel unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day—with a chatty cast of priests, nuns and philosophizing orderlies running about—adding to the sanctified air.

he pawed through his closet like a bear in a blackberry bramble

This debut novel by 29-year-old Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won the 2020 International Booker Prize.

in Barack Obama's new memoir, readers get to know a host of colorful characters who played a role in the campaign for the presidency and Obama’s first term in office.

Like a master painter’s sketchbooks, “Archives” is uniquely revealing of the roots of Joni Mitchell’s distinctive voice both as a singer and a writer.