“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep,” says the garrulous shoemaker who narrates the Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal’s “Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age” (1964), “it’s meant to ...

The staff of Book World reads a lot, but some moments stick with us more than others. These are some of the best, most quotable sentences we read throughout 2024 in books book new and old. There are ...

Some short stories build to a single sentence. This is so common, actually, that it sometimes seems most of the stories I read are of this type. Readers are herded toward the shiny black nailhead of a ...

The coronavirus pandemic is still raging away and God knows we’ll be reading novels about it for years, but Louise Erdrich’s “The Sentence” may be the best one we ever get. Neither a grim rehashing of ...

When looking up a word in the dictionary, the sample sentences provided below the definition always help give context for words. While helpful, these examples can be strange or oddly poetic. Designer ...

Some books take their time to grab a hold of your attention, their plot and characters slowly developing into something interesting and beautiful. But other books catch your eye the second you skim ...