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Saturday, Dec 1, 2012 12:30 AM UTC
Has our pep-talk-prone culture led readers to shun tragic literary classics?
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Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 5:49 PM UTC
In "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a reluctant hero examines the hypocrisy and tragedy of the Iraq War
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Monday, Nov 26, 2012 1:00 AM UTC
Ten illustrated tales of love, war, crime, politics and sex, not to mention ghosts and mermaids SLIDE SHOW
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Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 10:00 PM UTC
A master memoirist on the human-beast connection, from pampered pets and hated pests to girls and their horses
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Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 7:00 PM UTC
Author Victor LaValle brings the voice of Queens to this tale of a demon stalking a mental ward
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Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 3:19 PM UTC
Contrary to reports, the U.S. literary prize ceremony isn't "glamorous" but it is poised to engage more readers
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Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012 2:36 PM UTC
Biographers agree that Broadwell wronged her readers -- and not just by sleeping with her subject
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Monday, Nov 12, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
A cheating widow inherits a mansion full of taxidermy animals and secrets in Lydia Millet's new novel
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Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012 1:23 PM UTC
Stephen Colbert's satire of right-wing petulance dazzled on election night — but will it soon be irrelevant? VIDEO
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Monday, Nov 5, 2012 5:05 PM UTC
The sequel to Justin Cronin's post-apocalyptic "The Passage" makes ideal listening in the aftermath of Sandy
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Monday, Nov 5, 2012 2:00 AM UTC
Oliver Sacks explores the strange world of hallucinations, and says they're far more common than we realize
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Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 11:40 PM UTC
Fake photographs circulated during Sandy illustrate the unreal real world we now occupy during disasters
