These books aren’t just stories—they're interrogations of storytelling itself. They challenge the reader to question what we ...

1. This is the big one—literally: It’s a 3,000-page monster, and even some of its sentences are gigantic. (One of them is almost as long as this entire article.) But its fans will tell you it’s the ...

There’s something eerily intimate about reading The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. It’s the kind of book that lingers quietly ...

First, a caveat: "The Memory of Love," Aminatta Forna's elegantly rendered novel of loss and rehabilitation in the aftermath of Sierra Leone's long civil war, is far better than its title suggests.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — In the late- 1830s, workers consolidating scattered burial sites into the new Fulton Street Cemetery dug up the grave of Digby Baker, a strongman laborer who worked in Grand Rapids ...