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Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday, that is, when publisher Hachette pulled ...

Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.” By Alexandra ...

New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by historical fiction ...

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, novels are the moments where that shift happens. For ...

Some 20 years ago, a cobweb descended over my right eye. What I thought was a migraine, turned out to be a semi-detached retina. Even saying those words now makes me flinch. I was lucky and my sight ...

Dating all the way back to 1923, Weird Tales is easily one of the most iconic pulp magazines ever published. That venerable series is returning in a new form in 2026, as Monstrous Books aims to revive ...

If you watched the Super Bowl on Sunday, you received the message loud and clear that Artificial Intelligence is amazing and no one will ever stop using it. But it’s not just at sporting events or ...

At a gathering of the Lost Lambs, a Christian guidance club that meets every Monday and Friday at Our Lady of Suffering Church, the facilitator, Miss Priscilla Winkle, announces, “We are going to try ...

The family at the center of Madeline Cash’s first novel, Lost Lambs, is falling apart. Bud and Catherine Flynn have begun a “nonconsensual nonmonogamous spell.” They are too busy scorching each ...

The beginning of the year is a great time to pick up a new book. Many avid readers often find themselves setting up reading goals on GoodReads and similar cataloging sites as a goal or resolution.