Traveling during the holiday season can offer extra time for reading, so look for these new books at libraries and airport ...

2 THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES (Knopf, $35). By Amy Tan. The best-selling novelist’s essays and sketches document the birds inhabiting the land around her home. 3 BRAIDING SWEETGRASS (Milkweed ...

My Mexico” and “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts” are a few of the cookbooks that serve up great stories along with ...

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

László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769” is a timely meditation on our impotent slide into authoritarianism.

Rob Sheffield’s book is an impassioned dissertation on Swift’s history, her craft and her place in a long line of legends ...

Stephen King’s “You Like it Darker,” narrated by the magnificent Will Patton, is among this month’s best audiobooks.