"Language is the great costume," says this wildly imaginative writer, who once sewed corsets for a Shakespeare company. "I’ve changed my life over and over by telling new kinds of stories." 

A captivating debut for fans of Sarah Waters, one of the funniest novels of 2018, and more. 

Six of our favorite new science fiction and fantasy books range from mecha battles in the United States of Japan to an epic conclusion to a bestselling urban fantasy series.

There's a lot of competition in this uber-popular genre. What should you read?

That back-to-school feeling has us ready to hit the books.

The Marvellous Equations of the Dread is Marcia Douglas's ode to Jamaica's tumultuous history, Rastafarianism, reggae music, and its resilient people. It also features a reincarnated Bob Marley. Douglas discusses the book, Marley's legacy, and what it means to write "A Novel in Bass Riddim."

Well, 2018 has been a funny year in a lot of ways, but perhaps particularly in books, where writers of fiction and essays brought out their best material. If you are in the mood to laugh, we've got five reads to recommend.

A Huck Finn-ish tale, King Lear set in India, two savvy satires, and more. 

Here are some of the books we have been talking about this week. 

I listened to him practice his closing argument, and was utterly convinced that his client was innocent. But then I imagined, somewhere across town in Boston, the wife of the prosecutor listening to her husband give his closing argument. In which that very same defendant was guilty. They had used exactly the same evidence to come up with two polar opposite results. How can that be? And I thought... My book my book my book! -- Hank Phillippi Ryan

TV series creator Carlton Cuse talks about modernizing CIA analyst Jack Ryan to step up to today's challenges while staying true to Tom Clancy's vision in the first season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

Yuval Noah Harari's  21 Lessons for the 21st Century addresses urgent, shape-shifting topics that will impact our present and near future—in other words, everything you're not supposed to talk about at Thanksgiving. Here are brief descriptions for five of his theses, and they're not reassuring. 

Keith O'Brien's remarkable work of narrative nonfiction tells the story of five trailblazing women who made aviation history. In this exclusive piece for Amazon Book Review readers, O'Brien tells us how a flight of his own led to the story...

Way back in June, magazines, newspapers, and blogs -- including ours -- were full of lists recommending summer reading. But what did people actually read this summer? 

The votes are in! See which books in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and graphic novel categories won the Dragon Awards over the weekend.