By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Questions arise about those who deny the authority of the Vedas. The Vedas are considered authoritative because they are apaurusheya (not man-made) and thus free from human errors or biases. Suppose ...

The Vedas affirm the concept of the soul being distinct from the body. However, objections arise when this is taken as an established truth. In various religions, the words of their respective ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. The heartbreaking and insightful memoir from Elvis's only Child, Lisa Marie, written with her daughter, Riley Keough.

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

How long did it take to translate the Upanishads? Translated in the book you'll find the 10 so-called main Upanishads. It took me about three years, while the entire book took almost five years, but ...

In his book “American Oasis,” Kyle Paoletta explores the region’s environmental and cultural struggles and what they mean for the rest of the nation. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second ...

Discover the best book scanners, which make it quick and easy to accurately capture the pages of a book in digital form The best book scanners make digitally capturing the pages of a book far easier ...

Lack of resolution in the murder case of Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh raises serious questions about the intent and ...

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