At a time when many literary novels are becoming shorter and increasingly opaque, the luminous Dream Count – Adichie’s first ...

Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village ...

Reading novels puts students in community with complex ideas they can explore across weeks — in ways that simply cannot be recreated by skimming a two-sentence Instagram caption. Credit: Getty Images ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel ...

The apex form of the English language has something to teach everyone. Editor’s Note: This excerpt is adapted from 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read), by Christopher J.

Whenever we have a free afternoon, my nine-year-old and I visit our favorite bookshop. By now, we have a routine. Ella makes a beeline to the graphic novels. Unlike prose, which takes her days to read ...

Fiction, non-fiction, hybrid works, poetry—2026 offers readers a rich array of choicesThese books are sure to spark essential ...

Someone, somewhere, has spent years, perhaps their whole life, pulling a book together. The reader gets to spend weeks ...

The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...