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

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

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 ...

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.