When he appeared in court, he was asked if he took alcohol and replied: “I have been drinking every night of my adult life.” The German authorities acquitted him and, according to Peter Ackroyd, in ...

Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New York City, ...

The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

Readers in 2026 increasingly turn to quieter stories that comfort rather than overwhelm. Healing fiction, often set in cafés, ...