In Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfinder,” a highlight in a strong year of fiction, a young woman on a Polynesian island more than 500 years in the past ponders the significance of a whale that has beached on ...

Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading mystery fiction can strengthen moral discernment and help believers ...

“All great literature can be reduced to two stories: a man goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town.” This axiom, most often attributed to Leo Tolstoy, speaks to the power of the stories we ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

With the fifth installment of his bingeable American Story anthology, Ryan Murphy has pulled off the impossible: he has managed to make one of his own stories — much less one about the Kennedys — a ...