Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

The judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will narrow the 12 down to a shortlist in May. The winner will then be announced at the Borders Book Festival in June. More than half ...

Twelve novelists have been longlisted for a £25,000 award named after a famous Scottish writer. The judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will narrow the 12 down to a shortlist ...

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of ...

Plenty of classics made the list, as did books that capture particular, personal slices of New York. By Juliana Barbassa and Jennifer Harlan The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...