Book of the day: Few contemporary novels have captured the complexities of female friendship and social change as vividly as My Brilliant Friend, the first installment in the acclaimed Neapolitan ...

Family relationships and romantic relationships carry a certain set of norms and expectations about loyalty and fidelity. But when it comes to friendships ... things become nebulous, even unreliable. ...

Somehow, we have reached (almost) the end of another year, which means it’s time for my annual Biblioracle Book Awards, an entirely idiosyncratic exercise meant to highlight some of the most ...

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship. By Joumana Khatib Talk to ...