All y’all regular readers know that I like books … a lot. Y’all can guess that I purchase a lot of books. Here’s the trick of affording them: First, I don’t much go out anymore, so “going out” isn’t ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...

2025 felt a bit uneven as far as literary fiction went, with a number of big-name writers and novels failing to live up to their billing. But as the year drew to a close, there are still plenty of ...