Though I always enjoyed reading for the sake of it and the sense of accomplishment that came with completing a book in earnest, the notion of tallies never bothered me too much. As the years went ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. My job as a book critic used to elicit envy at cocktail parties, with people fantasising about a life spent reading.

The following are 44 books you can look forward to in 2025 ... Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, pick up a summer job in Minnesota helping to harvest sugar beets (aka Beta vulgaris).

Fortunately, 2024 gave me many choices. Presidential history is my bread and butter, and there was a strong slate of books worth reading in this category this year. One of my favorites was Behind ...

It’s also a book adults will delight in, with its timeless charm, largely because it will transform them to their own childhood and remind them why they fell in love with reading in the first place.

A top White House official said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign. A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your January reading list ... Zusak (“The Book Thief”) and his family have had three ...

I read it in ninth grade, and I remember my English teacher had turned it into a sort of big, anticipated event that we would be reading this book ... I read in a sort of summer program for ...

2. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $29) Two grieving brothers come to terms with their history and the people they love. 3. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A ...