The latest story collection from Julian Barnes is filled with both gems and should-have-been discards.
Al Gore's book "our Choice" has been converted into an e-book app that is a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets.
The Butcher’s Boy, Thomas Perry’s unflappable hired killer, is forced out of retirement to settle old scores in “The Informant.”
Mo Willems’s latest picture book features a little girl and her stuffed animal. But in contrast to his Knuffle Bunny series, this one is told from the toy’s point of view.
In “Evel,” a former Sports Illustrated writer recounts the daredevil life and times of Evel Knievel.
The comedian Albert Brooks, who publishes his debut comic novel, “2030,” next Tuesday, finds humor amid misery.
In “A Singular Woman,” the author Janny Scott goes beyond what we know about Barack Obama’s mother — a “white woman from Kansas” — to portray a woman who took a more difficult path than her peers’.
Since 9/11, there's been an outpouring of books about Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the September 11th attacks and the war in Afghanistan. Here is an annotated list of some of the more useful books on those subjects.
Norman Mailer’s apartment, now for sale, is filled with furnishings, photographs and knickknacks that evoke the writer’s life.
In his book, “Play Like You Mean It,” Rex Ryan has produced an inside look of his first two years as Jets coach and managed to spark myriad reactions.
Vladimir Sorokin, one of Russia’s most celebrated writers, has spent decades puncturing readers’ expectations.
Marja Mills and her publisher, the Penguin Press, insisted that she had the cooperation of Harper Lee in writing a memoir of the writer.
“33 Revolutions Per Minute” by Dorian Lynskey is a history of protest songs as vehicles for propaganda or broad social change.
A book by Adam Mansbach, “Go the — to Sleep,” was not to be published until October, but pre-orders have already sent it into the Top 10 of Amazon’s best-seller list.
Arthur Phillips’s splendidly devious novel consists of a Shakespearean play of his own virtuosic creation and an “introduction” that devastatingly reveals the psychological life of its author.
Janet Malcolm studies the case of a cultivated doctor convicted of hiring a hit man to kill her estranged husband in 2007.
Francine Prose’s wry novel of a young Albanian immigrant in New Jersey sets America in high relief, mordant and comic, light and dark.
A British music critic explores the tradition of protest music through chapters centered on particular songs.
While her husband pursues an affair, this sprightly novel’s heroine becomes immersed in an all-female world.
Chika Unigwe tells the stories of four African sex workers sharing an apartment in a Belgian red-light district.
A definitive account of how Goldman Sachs became the most profitable and influential investment bank of the modern era.
Blake Butler’s new novel is a family drama presented as a puzzle in diverse forms, from Whitmanesque to minimalist.
A Harvard historian considers those — rich and poor, white, black and red — who fled the American Revolution.
Professor X, an adjunct instructor and self-described academic hit man, disputes the idea that college is for everyone.
A Civil War historian argues that a commitment to national survival, much more than abolition, motivated the North to fight.
“Queen of the Falls” follows Annie Edson Taylor over Niagara Falls in a barrel; and “Nurse, Soldier, Spy” tells the story of the cross-dressing Civil War hero Sarah Emma Edmonds.
Today’s literary publicity stunts pale before the sandwich boards, hot-air balloons and beer ads of yore.
Featuring Arthur Phillips on Shakespeare, literary forgery and his new novel, “The Tragedy of Arthur.”
Mr. Cornuelle’s book, “Reclaiming the American Dream,” promoted volunteerism to help solve social problems.
Mr. Sábato was an acclaimed novelist who led a commission that documented the atrocities committed by Argentina’s military dictatorship.
At 89, Betty White is riding high. And she has a new memoir of sorts, “If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t).”
The singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega branches out, writing and performing a play with music, “Carson McCullers Talks About Love,” that has gestated for 30 or so years.
On Italy’s northeastern shore, Trieste doesn’t preen for tourists. Yet it is possessed of an odd magic, one that echoes its literary past.
In “The Big Shift,” Marc Freedman describes a new, potentially productive “encore stage” of life — the time between midlife and age-induced infirmity.
Books about the integration of Major League Baseball, newspapers and the 1950s manhunt for the so-called Mad Bomber.
A few years ago, the Harvard professor and noted Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt found himself struggling to cook up a fraudulent piece of Shakespeare.
It’s only a few weeks since Barack Obama declared his candidacy for re-election, and already the right is winning the best-seller list.
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