Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Arielle Zibrak, a professor of English at the University of Wyoming, edited a volume of short stories by American women ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our ...

6. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (Berkley: $30) In a home for pregnant young women in 1970 Florida, a book on witchcraft upends lives. 7. The Big Empty by Robert Crais (G.P. Putnam ...

Other notable adult fiction books include "The Hunter" by Tana French, "Table for Two" by Amor Towles, "A Calamity of Souls" ...

6. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $35) A love story and ode to books and the libraries that house them. 7. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press ...