Mr. Israel, who has hosted another book club for nearly a decade, started this group last December in an effort to inspire heterosexual men to read more fiction. He solicited members over social ...

Here’s a novel idea: read more fiction,” blared the headline of a recent Wall Street Journal article by Gerard Baker. Baker gruffly lamented the digital age and society’s abhorrence of reading books ...

Bay Area native Elaine Castillo made the Financial Times’ “30 of the Planet’s Most Exciting Young People,” and her debut novel, “America Is Not the Heart,” was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, Lit ...