The latest novel in this entirely original science-fiction series features a human-size mantis shrimp as an "uplifted" species. It's ambitious and fantastic, says sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson ...

Kathleen Lance, Denver Labelled as dystopian science fiction, this tale of an engineered, living girl doomed to be a second-class, second-rate citizen in the near future. Pledged forever to serve a ...

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The British journalist Rachel Trethewey admits upfront to the challenges inherent in writing “Muv,” a biography of Sydney, ...

In “The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts,” a therapist’s home turns into a nightmare manifestation of her sadness and grief.

A Life,' explores how a reclusive Southern reporter’s proximity to FBI profilers and a real-life prison surgeon forged modern ...

In the face of an incredibly snowy winter, we asked five writers, editors, and booksellers across the state about the books that they can’t stop talking about. Telling stories of wild leverets, serial ...

It is both an ineffective sales pitch and generally accurate to call “DTF St. Louis” the unsexiest erotic thriller ever made. The HBO limited series, all seven episodes of which were written and ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...