In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, ...

Tobias Carroll recommends a dystopian novel from Venezuela, memoirs of imprisonment from Tunisia, Brazilian short stories, ...

We are still a few days out from the new year, but our editors have been reading diligently to give you a sneak peak of the ...

In 2024, Foreign Policy contributors read books that pushed them to reflect on their career experiences, reconsider the ...

By Brian Raftery A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their ...

I’m sure many of you did the same. A good book is escapist. But at its strongest, reading is an utterly transformative act – the lessons we learn, the characters we meet and the perspectives ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Like Max and Madeline, this boy and girl keep faith with ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...