The book could count as borderline-creepy but not really scary, and it is short enough for a quiet night in. A surreal, ...

Highlights among the year’s novels and short-story collections, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

A Love Story from the End of the World may take its title from the final of 10 short stories bundled inside, but it also ...

Written by Suman Ghosh and published by Simon & Schuster India, The Worlds of Aparna’ weaves together the journey of one of ...

These books are small but powerful enough to help you ease back into reading without pressure or commitment, Books, Times Now ...

Short books are a wonderful way to build a child’s reading habit. One of the most important habits that kids can inculcate ...

At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive.

In Rushdie’s first work of fiction since the 2022 knife attack that left him with life-changing injuries, his characters face ...

Salman Rushdie’s latest collection of short stories is entertaining in parts, though uneven, clumsy and unsatisfactory in its ...

Where does Arundhati Roy, a Booker-prizewinning author and activist, get her fiercely independent streak? The clue is in the title.

Udayan Vajpeyi’s Hindi novel in translation, ‘Love is Participation in Eternity’, is bold and original, but falls short of ...

Despite being in the same party, roughly the same age and elected in the same year, these guys are different as can be. And ...