This year, Valentine’s Day shares the 14th with Chinese New Year. Cupid had better flap his wings because it’s the Year of the Tiger, and tigers don’t eat chocolate. To commemorate this rare alignment, here are three books about love in Chinese families. » E-Mail...

The Postmistress, a new novel by Sarah Blake, tells two stories set during the early days of World War II. In the first, an American radio reporter sends back dispatches from London during the Blitz, and in the second, two residents of a small Massachusetts town respond to those...

Conspirata is the second novel in author Robert Harris’s trilogy about the Roman politician Cicero. The series pits Cicero, who is called a hypocrite for his willingness to compromise, against Julius Caesar, who seeks to refashion the Roman republic in his own image. » E-Mail...

Buried under the drifts in Washington, D.C., we turn to artful descriptions of snow from some favorite writers — in the hands of a good storyteller, snow can be magical, or monstrous. We sample works from Ezra Jack Keats, Laura Ingalls Wilder and, of course, Robert Frost. » E-Mail...

Famed author Ralph Ellison, who wrote the literary classic “Invisible Man,” was working on a second novel when he died of pancreatic cancer in 1994. Two editors were given access to his archive and have completed work on Ellison’s final work, “Three Days Before the...

Louise Erdrich’s Shadow Tag follows the disintegration of a marriage beset by betrayal and manipulation. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Erdrich’s novel raises “issues about art, privacy and identity.” » E-Mail This     » Add to...