John Warner

"Things in Nature Merely Grow" is about what Yiyun Li calls life inside an “abyss,” the abyss marked by the deaths of her children.

With “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams has crafted a book that manages to satisfy as narrative, literary analysis and cultural criticism.

There have been two recent deaths of writers who did very different things in their work and that I encountered at two very different times in my life who now...

The latest from Rob Hart, Laura Lippman and Megan Abbott are three very different books that will keep you reading through the end.

The Institute of Museum and Library Service gives grants that make institutions such as zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and, of course, libraries capable of providing programming to the public.

Jess Walter, author of the just about to be released “So Far Gone,” is one of my favorite contemporary novelists.

Lincoln Michel's new novel "Metallic Realms" strikes a balance between the silly and the serious, the ironic and the sincere.

While the Christie estate and the avatar developers insist that they are working hard to be faithful to the original sentiments of the living person, AI ethicists object to this...

For Erik Baker, entrepreneurialism is many things: a philosophy, a cog in a larger economic system, and in some cases even something that may approach a kind of secular religion.

On the surface, it's a bit like the Netflix phenomenon "Adolescence." But days after reading it, Vijay Khurana's novel still haunts my thoughts.