The Norwegian writer is known for his sprawling, brutally candid autofiction and speculative epics. Here’s where to start.

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We meet Tamma Callahan and Dan Redburn on the evening of the first day of their last year of high school, attempting to climb ...

At face value, Colleen Hoover's new book seems to mirror her hiatus after the "It Ends With Us" controversy. She doesn't want ...

Jeet Thayil's The Elsewhereans explores migration's emotional impact through Ammu's story, redefining belonging and identity ...

Mira Sumanti is a top Google executive by day but for many nights, she poured her heart into a tell-all book about navigating ...

If you’re new to the author’s work—now not only a book universe, but a cinematic one, too—here’s where to start.

For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...

Burden’s book, Strangers, lays bare the end of her marriage. Here, she and her mother, Amanda Burden, the daughter of the ...

Over the years, the horizons of palliative care have been stretched by trailblazing doctors. New concepts recognise that ...

Explore Margaret Atwood's memoir, "Book of Lives," tracing her life and art through captivating stories and insightful ...

The narrative of 'Seized' is vulnerably raw and deeply human, documenting not only illness but the endurance required to live ...