Finding a translation of a foreign-language book can require doggedness on the part of American readers. Even the books of Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano were, until recently, rare commodities ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

The Book Club is reading “The Transit of Venus” in June. Come to the all-day online “meeting,” June 24th. [#image: /photos/590957ca6552fa0be682d047]I wanted to respond to the comment Pat Rosier left ...

Some books take their time to grab a hold of your attention, their plot and characters slowly developing into something interesting and beautiful. But other books catch your eye the second you skim ...

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep,” says the garrulous shoemaker who narrates the Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s “Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age” (1964), “it’s meant to ...

The English language textbook introduced by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for Class VIII students this year contains lengthy sentences and Hindi and Sanskrit words, ...