I barely skim the last page of a book before I rush to update it from “Currently Reading” to “Read” on Goodreads. It’s the same feeling I get when I’m watching a movie I’m not enjoying — ...

We come to Sally Rooney for magic. We come to her books to laugh, to cry, to care. Because we need that, all of us, that indescribable feeling we get when we flip through the pages of a Rooney novel. All...

Essayist, novelist, journalist and playwright James Baldwin combined his poetic prowess and unique experience as a Black gay man in 20th-century America to produce some of the most influential works of...