After more than 15 years in the publishing industry, Ami Greko still remembers the summer when everyone was reading “A Little Life.” The 736-page tragedy by Hanya Yanagihara hardly seemed like the ...

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First U.S. concert was ‘inexplicably’ in the city 60 miles east of LA, biographer Bob Spitz writes. Columnist David Allen has ...

An ungainly new biography by the German philosopher Thomas Meyer purports to situate Arendt in the context of her own era.

Writers write, and if they are good or lucky enough, what they write gets published, increasingly online but still, for many, the old-fashioned way: ink on paper in hardcover books.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has threatened to sue The New York Times unless it hands over six years’ worth of records to clear up whether everything […] ...

I’ve been an enormous Richard Russo fan for many years now. Russo has a gift for tragicomedy like few other American writers. But his latest novel left me cold.

Caro Claire Burke, the début novelist behind “Yesteryear,” on researching trad wives, wading into the discourse, and Anne ...

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