I first read the “Shades of Magic” series by V.E. Schwab on the first day of 2019, and I loved it so much I reread all three books six months later. The first book, “A Darker Shade of Magic,”...

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a group of William Shakespeare nerds studying theater get too into their roles, M. L. Rio’s novel “If We Were Villains” gives a transfixing answer: murder.  When...

In many ways, Alex Claremont-Diaz is a fairly typical Georgetown University student: politically engaged, overachieving, convinced he will be a senator one day and prone to poor decision-making when intoxicated....