As you consider last week’s nominations for the Academy Awards, test your knowledge of works that inspired previous winners with this short quiz.

In Emanuela Anechoum’s novel, “Tangerinn,” an Italian Moroccan woman examines her family’s legacy of immigration, and tries ...

In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure ...

Eating Ashes,” by Brenda Navarro, dispenses with familiar portrayals of mourning in a tale of migration, loss and memory.

In her debut, Angela Tomaski puts a quirky spin on Gothic storytelling.

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“Catapult” works because of its aw-shucks quality. Despite the sidebars into prickly themes, the book never strays far from ...

Inspired by Tergit’s own family history, this account of the rise and fall of a German Jewish clan has an addictive immediacy ...

A new year means new books are on the way, and for those of you who — like us! — have already read every book published in ...

A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, ...

In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the ...