Good novels are like good parties: You get the right mix of people together, and you never quite know what will happen. In Ann Patchett's new novel Commonwealth, a christening party takes a turn when ...

“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure. By Hannah Tennant-Moore Hannah Tennant-Moore is the author of ...

First published in 1961, this haunting autobiographical novel retraces Berger's experiences in Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Teenage narrator Tania's shame at having to wear the yellow star ...