By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

Bengali director Arun Roy, who was known for his films Bagha Jatin (2023) and Hiralal (2021), died at the age of 56. The ace director passed away due to a severe lung infection early Thursday ...

An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. The heartbreaking and insightful memoir from Elvis's only Child, Lisa Marie, written with her daughter, Riley Keough.

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

Investors’ enthusiasm for A.I. has converted some longtime Wall Street bears into optimists. Jeremy Grantham is still waiting for the bubble to pop. Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to ...

In the naturalist Sy Montgomery’s nonfiction book “The Soul of an Octopus,” she visits an octopus and observes that the animal “had not only remembered us and recognized us; she had wanted ...

In his book “American Oasis,” Kyle Paoletta explores the region’s environmental and cultural struggles and what they mean for the rest of the nation. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second ...

The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads to cure seasonal blues to novels that transport you to warmer climes, the criteria for a good book is ...