Restlessness has always had a literary mirror, and few bodies of work hold it as fiercely as these French masterpieces. They ...

The year’s best fiction and nonfiction, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

All eyes in publishing are turned to the 76th annual National Book Awards being held in Manhattan. Novels by Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell, and a memoir by Yiyun Li are among the finalists ...

Richard Barnett pokes at Larkin’s protective carapace of soot-stained gloom and finds a writer with an unillusioned yet tenderly perceptive sense of Nature, in all its beauty and indifference ...

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...