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The home of Pen and Brush, a century-old former club in Greenwich Village devoted to female artists and writers, is for sale.

P.D. James, the grande dame of British crime fiction, has just published her 18th novel, The Private Patient (Knopf, $25.95, ...

AP - Between the books already out there and the books signed up for the future, it's boom time for President-elect Barack Obama in the publishing world.

The Miami International Book Fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Co-founder Mitchell Kaplan owns the Miami bookstore Books and Books and is past president of the American Booksellers Association. He tells Ari Shapiro that he helped start the fair to combat the idea that Miami wasn't a literary town.

If I Die in Juárez, Stella Pope Duarte's account of the murders and rapes of maquiladora women on the US/Mexican border, is superb and backed up with uncounted hours of empirical research with actual people living and writing there. This is a stunning, dramatic, mind-gripping book that will take months ...

The books that examine the life and presidency of Franklin Roosevelt could easily fill a small library and it's hard to imagine that another biography of this iconic figure would add much to our understanding of his life and work. But current events provide a potent reminder that even well-known ...

In this sequel to The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell and his family awaken an Emperor of ancient China and his terracotta army.

A new Michael Crichton book had been scheduled to be released in May. But that apparently won't happen. Carol Shields' The Stone ...

In both print and her public persona, Toni Morrison is an original thinker. She once famously called Bill Clinton our first black ...

Roberto Bolaño's five-part posthumous magnum opus is grounded in the real chronicle of unsolved sex crimes in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with hundreds of women dead and the identities of their killers still unclear.