The riveting six-part documentary series Wild Wild Country recounts the weird, dark tale of "the Bhagwan," his thousands of maroon-clad acolytes, and their takeover of a tiny Oregon town. How did this happen, and why are people drawn to megalomaniacs, over and over again? Here are four books exploring cults of personality, from family-size to village-scale, with endings ranging from uplifting to disastrous. 

Her new graphic novel is a memoir of camp that is a must-read as we head into summer; Vera Brosgol let's us inside her creation process and some pretty funny letters home from camp... 

The ever clever and delightfully cheeky author discusses having her cake and eating it too, cheating death, and finding the funny where you think there would be none...

This month, the death of a wonderful writer overshadows the list. 

What can be better than the perfect chocolate chip cookie?  In her cookbook , Magnolia Table, and here on the Amazon Book Review,  Joanna Gaines shares her recipe for a family favorite.

Though the great poets of the past have a special place in the pantheon, there's room for more timely verse. New people -- children, that is -- require new poems. These three recent books of poetry, for toddlers through teenagers, deserve space on their shelves.

Catherynne M. Valente talks with us about sentience, Eurovision, the dark roots of glam rock, and making jokes in space.

Celebrate the authors, illustrators and books that have added magic to, and enriched your life...

Davies, one of the most prolific and beloved writers of children's books about the natural world, talks about her work, her sources of inspiration, and what kids don't know about the environment around them.

Here's what we're reading this weekend.

What makes a great book? That's difficult to quantify, and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether it's a best seller. Still, we took a look at how our 2017 top picks in fiction and nonfiction have fared.

In Barnes’s ruminative, finely wrought, and often wryly funny novel,  The Only Story is the story of love: the ideal of love, and love as it is lived. 

Misadventures sardonically told, the wisdom of natural disasters, and the wacky world of animal depravity highlight our picks for the best fact-based writing of the month.

Besides the daffodils and tulips, spring is turning up loads of exciting new young adult novels.  Here are some of the ones we're most looking forward to.

The Pulitzers were announced this week. Here's a roundup of the books and authors who were honored.