Lily King’s new novel, “Heart the Lover,” is a profoundly affecting story of romantic entanglement by a master of the genre. By Lauren Christensen Lauren Christensen is an editor at the Book Review ...

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Aaron welcomes Book Harvest and Hope Renovations, who are joining forces for a new project that supports both of their missions at once.

One of the most remarkable things about Jessica Traynor's New Arcana is how successfully it manages to evoke the expansive honesty at the heart of John Berryman's 1969 masterwork The Dream Songs.

Semicolon Books in Chicago isn't just a store—it's the community's heart. Here's why it's one of 2025's Nicest Places in America.

Stories is all-in on the romance genre, and the founders are cultivating a whole world around the books they publish, complete with fanfiction and merchandise.

An 1844 religiously inspired songbook that uses shape notes to help people read music got a major update recently and it attracting younger singers.

Which member of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Paddy's Pub Gang is truly the worst human being? Mac, Charlie, Dennis, Dee, or Frank?

By the end of King's latest, I felt that "Heart the Lover" stands as one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read.

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