A new year means new books are on the way, and for those of you who — like us! — have already read every book published in ...

The Great Gatsby, 100 years old this year, prompts this observation: it’s a great American novel because it deepens in meaning with the passing years. It’s a mistake, I believe, to introduce such a ...

Satire and mystery swirl with arrogance, the creative process and unchecked ambition in Matthew Pearl’s amusing and realistic “The Award.” Pearl turns a delightfully poisoned pen toward writers and ...

Betty Fussell’s new memoir offers insights on aging, stories about love and a recipe for coyote pie. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a ...

In The Rest of Our Lives, the narrator drops his daughter off to college — then keeps on driving, leaving his marriage behind ...

Who better than Werner Herzog, the Bavarian mad genius, to take us on a heady time-travelling exploration on what truth might mean/be/permit? The Future of Truth is a summation of his life project, ...