Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

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Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught personal life ...

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A Collection of Stories and Recipes by The Gourmand (David Lane and Marina Tweed) (Taschen) The hedonist’s stocking filler: the lemon in art and design from Egyptian wall paintings to Philippe ...

“Climax has come to embody a point of view and an attitude,” says Isabella Burley, the founder of Climax Books. She’s perched on a bench in the New York location of her rare book ...

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

The acclaimed Japanese magic realist (“Norwegian Wood,” “Kafka on the Shore”) is back with his first book in six years. It opens on a pair of teens in love. The girl disappears and the man ...

He is the author of many standalone crime and thriller books as well as several much-loved series, including the Amos Decker series featuring the eponymous FBI agent and the Atlee Pine series. Whether ...

Once a revered site of pilgrimage, its picturesque, snow-topped slopes have inspired countless artworks, including Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.' The mountain ...

The mountain with its snowy top and near symmetrical slopes have been the subject of numerous forms of art, including Japanese ukiyoe artist Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.