Chris Adrian's stories chronicle accidents, illness, death and 9/11: a litany of misfortune. But don't be deterred by the dismal subject matter.

Hundreds of small, independent publishers will have easier access to digital book technology under a new service offered by Perseus Books Group.

Ruth Butler's book tries to rescue from obscurity the wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin.

Oprah Winfrey and book clubs across America get it: Certain books are "talkers." They make you think, react and want to chat ...

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Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient peoples from Mesopotamia to Peru could not "think" as we do today, and were therefore not conscious. Unable to introspect or contemplate metaphor-driven scenarios, they experienced auditory hallucinations - voices of gods actually heard as the Old Testament or the Iliad - which, emanating from the brain's right hemisphere, told an individual what to do in circumstances of novelty or stress.

Some of the statistics Potrero Hill author Raj Patel includes in his book, "Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System," can turn the stomach: At the same time 800 million people are going hungry on our planet, 1 billion of us are...