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In a week that straddles both sides of Christmas, Asako Yuzuki’s food-based crime novel translated into English by Polly Barton ... as even the most successful of books have seen a decline ...

Here are the most exciting books we're most looking forward to sharing in 2025 Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

Malayalam-language writer MT Vasudevan Nair died on December 25 at the age of 91. He was also an acclaimed film director and screenwriter. Born in 1933 in Kerala’s Palakkad district, Nair began ...

I tend not to review books in translation, but I did make an exception some years ago for a vigorous new English edition of Tolstoi’s War and Peace since it was touted as “more faithful” to ...

As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival ... Reade, an English professor at Northeastern University London, offers ...

some appearing in English for the first time. After finding his alcoholic wife dead in the bathtub of their Berlin apartment, Kaspar, a 70-something bookstore owner, discovers an unfinished book ...

From highly anticipated sequels to fresh voices debuting their first novels, the year is shaping up to be a thrilling one for book lovers. These releases reflect the diverse range of stories that ...