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 ...

Changes and challenges will come and go but we will always have the gift of transporting ourselves in time and place through ...

Literature has a unique way of drawing readers into an imaginary world, making them feel, think, and experience the lives of characters like they’re their own. Fiction transports readers across time, ...

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 ...

Our columnist on four books that are worth your time. Credit...Caroline Gamon Supported by By Alida Becker Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the ...