Bookstores say customers love “Blind Date With a Book,” which masks a book’s real cover and lets readers discover what’s inside. Three new books make the case for music as medicine.

Hoping to catch the eye of the boy she likes, 13-year-old Deecie Jeffries sneaks out of the house in Austin, Texas, in 1987 ...

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Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares ...

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Never judge a book by its cover — even ... The Seattle Times does not append comment threads to stories from wire services such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington ...

I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin ...

An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Good without God.

At the same time, Edwards seems less eager to consider what the story might say about how claims of philanthropy and justice can sometimes serve as cover ... of The New York Times Book Review.

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Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the ...