Tennis superstar Arthur Ashe transcended sports with his distinctive and influential civil-rights activism, and with his last, brave battle against AIDS. In the comprehensive biography...
David Sedaris’ “Theft by Finding” is a collection of selected diary entries from 1977 to 2002 that presumably were source material for much of his...
Like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Never Let Me Go,” Hamid’s novel depicts a dystopian, otherworldly vision.
Paul Auster’s magnificently conceived new novel, “4 3 2 1,” gives four different versions of main character Archie Ferguson’s life. Auster discusses his book Thursday,...
“Home and Away,” a new book of correspondence between authors Karl Ove Knausgaard of Norway and Fredrik Ekelund of Sweden during the 2014 World Cup,...
In “The Way of the Writer,” Seattle’s Charles Johnson, a National Book Award winner, reveals some of the home truths that guide his writing. Johnson...