That’s where cozy fantasy comes in: a book genre combining our love for fantasy novels with characters and plots that evoke ...

Fans of the Japanese pop culture are finding connection and love through a common interest. Bookstore owners say the trend has had staying power, and more people are taking Japanese language classes.

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

There’s now a thriving industry based on expediting heartbreak. The lovelorn can check into a Heartbreak Hotel on London’s Broadway Market; do Yoga with Adriene classes to help them “tend to” their ...

The best-selling author based “The Notebook” and other heart-tugging novels in New Bern, where he lives. But what makes the ...

Inklings Children’s Books hosts noted book publisher Claudia Bedrick for a February 16 reading at the Waitsfield bookstore in ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Authority! Identity! Hormones! In this world, being a teenager is hard. Rather than slam your head into the brick walls of ...