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Mr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey: My Political Life,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.
The 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style went on sale yesterday. In a nod to the past, the University of Chicago Press is offering a free e-book of the very first edition, published in 1906.
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.
Back in 2004, Jonathan Franzen reviewed Alice Munro's "Runaway" in the Book Review. Some of the thoughts provoked in him by that book sound an awful lot like some of the thoughts in his latest book, "Freedom."
They will be moved from his apartment in the Bronx to the YIVO headquarters on West 16th Street.
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.
With more people choosing to buy books online, a Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side prepared to close early next year.
The future of The Virginia Quarterly Review, a highly regarded literary journal, is in doubt after an editor's suicide.
Shukert, the author of "Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour," was a playwright and actress before she was a two-time memoirist.
Oxford University Press said no decision had been made on the format of the third edition of the O.E.D. after its chief executive seemed to suggest it might not be available in print.
“True Prep,” Lisa Birnbach’s successor to “The Official Preppy Handbook,” addresses the adult world of funerals and second marriages and the post-1980 world of cellphones, the Internet and synthetic fleece.
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Freedom,” is causing plenty of talk, even before it hits the shelves.
Featuring a conversation about Jonathan Franzen's novel "Freedom"; and Suzanne Collins on her "Hunger Games" trilogy.
Featuring a conversation about Jonathan Franzen's novel "Freedom"; and Suzanne Collins on her "Hunger Games" trilogy.
A re-telling of Ovid's mythological tales from the London-based theater company Pants on Fire won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award and will play at the Flea in January.
“The Postcard Killers,” a collaboration between James Patterson and the Swedish crime writer Liza Marklund, hits the fiction list at No. 1.
The final book in a four-volume series describes the fate of nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union fell.
Craig Childs explores archaeology’s ethical debates and the costs of discovering lost history.
No money for Venice or Machu Picchu? Try hitting the literary hot spots of Pottsville and Scranton.
Milan Kundera’s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a “post-art” era.
This memoir of traveling Europe is not shy about reporting on sex, drinking marathons or personal humiliation.
An absorbing biography of a man who was an academic, a writer, a tattoo artist and an avid sexual adventurer in pre-Stonewall gay America.
How the Industrial Revolution transformed invention itself.
The hero of Alan Furst’s novel is devoted to ouzo, women and saving people from the Nazis — until they invade Greece.
A Library of America collection showcases Shirley Jackson’s fascination with psychology, society and the terrors of everyday life.
In the dystopia of this wry first novel, a hierarchical society forces young bachelors to find brides — or else.
