A little-known author is suing British comic Ricky Gervais for allegedly stealing his ideas when he wrote his successful Flanimals children's ...

Steve Stern is the author, most recently, of the novel "The Frozen Rabbi."

Zombies populate this coming-of-age tale by Alden Bell.

A hospital visit with her daughter led the senior medical correspondent to write the new book. Q&A offers advice for patients and advoca ...

Mona Simpson’s novel alternates between the perspectives of an American woman and her immigrant nanny.

Highlights of Mary Roach’s look at the way humans adapt to spacefaring include zestful accounts of human-waste disposal, body odor control and astral sexual desire.

Carolyn Parkhurst seems to have a fascination with, and an innate grasp of, the fatal power of words. She understands the power of language, ...

Quirky novel is expected to take off quickly.

A look at the immigrant-led transformation of modern American cuisine, and at Mark Twain’s unbridled enthusiasm for it.

In a sex-obsessed society, nothing seems to inflame readers' imaginations quite like a chaste romance.

Memoirs by Thomas Chatterton Williams and Jerry Weintraub, a study of Evelyn Waugh and a history of American reburials.

Pat Benatar and Belinda Carlisle, who aimed at stardom from vastly different directions, reflect on their careers.

The Dutch author Hans Keilson’s newly-translated novels of Nazi-occupied Europe, “The Death of the Adversary” and “Comedy in a Minor Key,” are midcentury masterpieces.

The scholar Kevin Starr explores the history and meaning of the Golden Gate Bridge.

A biography of the ill-fated 1970s pop star Karen Carpenter.

Is the dark cover image on this Sunday's Book Review a photograph? A drawing?

Blake Bailey, who has called himself “a chronicler of middle-class chroniclers,” is the author of biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever.

Letters in response to David Leavitt’s review of Selina Hastings’s “Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham.”

Letter in response to Daniel Gilbert’s review of Kathryn Schulz’s “Being Wrong.”

Letter in response to Miranda Seymour’s review of “The Great Silence,” by Juliet Nicolson.