Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could ...

Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award winner, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its many forms. By Shahnaz Habib Shahnaz Habib is the author of “Airplane Mode: ...

I tend not to review books in translation, but I did make an exception some years ago for a vigorous new English edition of Tolstoi’s War and Peace since it was touted as “more faithful” to the ...

Four half siblings balance the mundane (internships) and the terrifying (internment) in Kevin Nguyen’s “Mỹ Documents.” By Ruben Reyes Jr. Ruben Reyes Jr. is the author of “There Is a Rio Grande in ...