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In ‘Later,’ Stephen King reminds us that he’s the master of the kids-with-strange-powers genre

Joe Biden won the presidency by making the most of his lucky breaks

Heroines of Self-Loathing

Out of the Wardrobe

Latina Girls Dreaming

Celebrating 125 Years of the Book Review With a Quiz

Lauren Oyler Talks About Deception Online

Reviewing the Book Review

A brain researcher on what Freud got right

America and Iran, from fascination to antagonism

Exploring the sense of touch, and why we hunger for contact

Why false narratives so often trump reality

Joe Ide’s IQ series continues with the idiosyncratic marvel ‘Smoke’

A Critic of Technology Turns Her Gaze Inward

His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel.

New in Paperback: ‘Real Life’ and ‘A Game of Birds and Wolves’

Murder, Mayhem and Menace: New Crime Fiction

Aliens, Book Organizing Tricks and Other Letters to the Editor

The story of the Black church, from the spiritual to the political to the personal

13 Y.A. Books to Add to Your Reading List This Spring

In ‘All Girls,’ a decades-old sexual assault at a boarding school prompts a vigilante to take action

12 New Books We Recommend This Week

Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions

What Happens When a Publisher Becomes a Megapublisher?

To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City

Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past

This Indigenous Author and Artist Team Have an Important Message

Ibram X. Kendi Likes to Read at Bedtime

A Writer Shakes Her Family Tree, and Cherishes Every Leaf

Memoir by Amos Oz’s Daughter Divides Family and Shocks Israel

In ‘Summer Brother,’ Sibling Bonding During a Season of Turmoil

Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action

Washington Post paperback bestsellers

16 New Books to Watch For in March

He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway.

It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It

A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro

Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that became great films

Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny to Write Political Thriller

Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling?

They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated.

The Life of a Soldier

True Crime Gets Its Close-Up

A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed

New & Noteworthy, From Isabel Allende to Robert Walser

Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother

Chasing Down a Deadbeat Dad, With a Knife Strapped to Her Leg

Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival

In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story

Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’