Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your July reading list.

His most famous quotes include, “Do not feel lonely ... with what they called the “obscene” sensuality of Leaves of Grass, ...

is one of the most memorable quotes from the movie ... Check out The Raven and Other Poems. It's not the kind of comforting ...

My dad likes to fish, and he likes to read books about fishing. My mom is a birder; she reads about birds. There are plenty of books on both subjects, I’ve found, when browsing in a gift-giving mood.

This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate ...

With 19 novels, not to mention poetry and film scripts, to his name, it's no surprise that Dahl was a massive fan of the written word. Here are nine of the best Roald Dahl quotes about books ...

I did not like the answer. I wanted to skip 4 so I could go to kindergarten.” Kate has written poetry collections, picture ...

Ikbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. The only problem? They made them up.

Steedman reads her mother’s sensibility (and her own, austere, childhood horizons) through critical, historical lenses that neither of them comprehended at the time. They were just trying to survive ...

Andrew O’Hagan’s social satire is drawing comparisons to “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and being touted as a perceptive “state of the nation” tome. The scientist, public health ...

Variations of the quote have gone viral over the last several years, including ones that emphasize the idea of sitting down ...

The Lex Innocentium in the seventh century, His law of Innocents, the first law of its kind. On the battlefield he had seen a mother’s body, Her child attached to her breast in death, White milk ...