Book Review: 'the Favorites' By Mary Yukari Waters

Three novels show that summer escapes, whether to seaside cottages or the great cities of Europe, rarely avoid the turmoil their characters have fled.

Collections of poetry are in short supply on the hardcover lists these days. But it wasn’t always thus, as Edna St. Vincent Millay once proved.

In “Pretend We Are Lovely,” Noley Reid’s first novel, a family tries to come to grips with a sudden death.

Six new paperback titles to check out this week.

Readers respond to the Jane Austen issue and more.