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New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers

Andy Hunter, founder of a new online sales outlet for independent booksellers, had seen a crisis building well before the ...

'Lost Children' author: Writers must 'document' pandemic

Cooped up at her Bronx home with her daughter and a niece because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mexican writer Valeria ...

Review: Paranoia seeps through a starship in 'Providence'

"Providence” by Max Barry (Putnam) A crew of research scientists makes first contact with an alien species of creatures that ...

Whiting Awards bestow $50K prizes to 10 emerging writers

Essayist and New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino and novelist Ling Ma are among this year's 10 winners of the Whiting ...

Valeria Luiselli's 'Lost Children Archive' wins Folio Prize

Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Lost Children Archive” won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ...

Plague as art: Over the centuries, many kinds of stories

Lauren Beukes, a script and fiction writer, is drawn to narratives that allow her to probe themes of gender and power.

Former prosecutor sues Netflix over Central Park 5 series

Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the ...

Q&A: Brian De Palma on why movies should be beautiful

Movie theaters may be shuttered across the country, and projects delayed, but there is still newly released work of lurid and ...

One-Two Punch: Patterson and Alexander team up on Ali book

Authors James Patterson and Kwame Alexander are teaming up on a book for young people about Muhammad Ali. “Becoming Muhammad ...

Author Roth weighed in on 'Plot Against America' TV series

David Simon, the creative force behind stellar TV including “The Wire," “Show Me a Hero” and “Treme,” found himself in ...

Barbara Neely, creator of black female sleuth series, dies

Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created the first black female sleuth series in mainstream American ...

Review: A single mother pursues justice in `Hide Away'

“Hide Away,” Thomas & Mercer, by Jason Pinter Single mother Rachel Marin has taken her two kids and moved to another city to ...

Winfrey reversed upcoming book selection after controversy

Oprah Winfrey reversed her book club selection of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s upcoming “My Dark Vanessa” after the novel was ...

Review: `The Jetsetters' is story of a dysfunctional family

“The Jetsetters: a Novel," Ballantine Books, by Amanda Eyre Ward Family vacations abroad can be an experience of a lifetime ...

Review: `Deacon King Kong' has many plot twists

“Deacon King Kong: a Novel," Riverhead Books, by James McBride James McBride’s sumptuous new novel, “Deacon King Kong,” opens ...

Dave Matthews was inspired by his daughters to write a novel

For his debut novel, Dave Matthews found inspiration close to home. He was recording music in New Orleans years ago when he ...

Review: 'Grace Kelly Dress' redefines storybook ending

“The Grace Kelly Dress: a Novel,” Graydon House, by Brenda Janowitz Three generations of women, each one reflective - and ...

Are these 8 `perfect' murders a case of life imitating art?

“Eight Perfect Murders,” William Morrow, by Peter Swanson It’s a cold, snowy winter in Boston, where Malcolm Kershaw, five ...

Review: `Long Range' is filled with twists and red herrings

“Long Range,” G.P. Putnam's Sons, by C.J. Box It’s been 19 years since C.J. Box introduced us to Wyoming game warden Joe ...

Review: A real-life Cinderella story set in the Gilded Age

“Rebel Cinderella,” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, by Adam Hochschild Adam Hochschild is among the most readable of historians.