Short reviews of recent releases.

Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author of the Daevabad trilogy and “The ...

After he and his brother join them in New York, the novel opens out into a more conventional consideration of rootlessness ...

Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Lion House is a striking slice of narrative non-fiction with all the verve of an immersive ...

His new book begins by throwing light on Ireland’s curious status—though Henry VIII declared it a kingdom in 1542, it was governed as a colony; the 1800 Acts of Union that created the United ...

HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

Ages come and pass, and a new month has dawned — bringing with it new books! It seems like it's always a busy time in the science fiction and fantasy section of the book stores these days ...

His new book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out on March 18. He’s here today to tell us how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and why, even though it’s now curable, it remains our planet ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books Section: Chimamanda ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...