When Allen Drummond and his family moved to Savannah, Ga., from his native Britain four years ago, they didn't have a car for ...

For a novel set in a small town south of Buffalo, America America has huge ambitions. They're nearly as big as those of the liberal ...

Michael Bracewell's history of Roxy Music doesn't go for conventional thinking — not about the band, and certainly not about how to write a rock biography. Instead, his new book combines art history, music theory and a smashing sense of fashion.

Are you looking for a reassuring book for a two- to four-year-old child who is going to be starting preschool, nursery school, or daycare? Beth Norling's Little School is a...

Besides acting in television and film, Hill Harper spends much of his free time mentoring young people. His newest book is aimed at young black women; it's titled Letters to a Young Sister. Actress Gabrielle Union wrote the book's forward.

In his two-room house in Beijing, Michael Meyer has no heat and no indoor plumbing - but he does have high-speed Internet. "They just threw the cable over the roof," says Meyer, 36, who watches A's games on his laptop. The Minnesota native has lived for the...

Mr. Disch twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God.

"The Sister" is powered by the same sort of confidently rendered literary suspense that propelled Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" onto best-seller lists.

Hired during an expansion in higher education, baby boomers are being replaced by a new generation.

Jonathan Karp, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Twelve, explains why we're living in "the age of the disposable book" and why he believes most books will inevitably wind up in the bargain bin.