Crack the Case Books by Cristina Matta launches with two ... the misadventures of Detective Ned as they challenge readers to solve the crime-and rewrite the ending.

At age 13, Sydney Singleton discovered an old photograph tucked away in a drawer in her paternal grandmother’s guest room. It was a portrait of a Black girl just entering her teen years — a ...

The pace could lead some readers to abandon the book, but don’t. The tale soon picks up speed, taking readers through propulsive a series of revelations, the most sunning of which involves Carol ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself. A statue of the Buddha in Kamakura ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Robert Macfarlane’s new book, Is a River Alive? (Hamish Hamilton), devotes a whole portion to Chennai and River Adyar.

In this excerpt from the forthcoming book The Optimist ... (Dynamic Optimism, for example, involved a technique called selective focus, in which you’d concentrate on only the positive aspects ...