Most people see the life of Paul McCartney as two distinct chapters ?? one with the Beatles and one without. But not Peter ...

Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, a portrait of a decaying 1974 New York, won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday ...

The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning.

Sarah Palin launched her book tour here Wednesday in what her fans hope will be the first stop of the 2012 presidential contest.

It’s not even Thanksgiving, and some Christmas-related books are already creeping up the list and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “The Lacuna,” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 5.

Sprawling, ambitious but often somewhat impersonal, Barbara Kingsolver's new novel The Lacuna is a solid book that feels a little ...

New biographies explore the lives of four very different women: Louisa May Alcott, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Ayn Rand and Dorothea ...

Jonathan Safran Foer is just the latest in a long line of distinguished literary vegetarians.

Stephen King is at No. 1 again; Andre Agassi's "Open" follows other memoirs to the top 10; and Anthony Horowitz is winding down ...

Jane Austen remains a hot literary property. In "A Truth Universally Acknowledged," other writers explain why.

Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said a White House bid in 2012 is "not on my radar screen" as she began ...

They say that if you have curly hair, you want straight. If you have brown hair, you want blond. But redheads are happy just ...

Dr. Pete Dizinoff is a mensch: caring internist, devoted husband, father and friend. So why is he living above his garage, estranged ...

Chaucer’s lusty pilgrims return in a Modern English incarnation.

The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.

Philip Roth’s novel stars an aging actor who can no longer act.

In the autumnal novel of Maureen Howard’s cycle of seasons, an 80-something narrator shares her inner Manhattan.

Reconstructing officials’ false and ineffectual responses to 9/11.

A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books ...

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