Webster County Library

Three picture books explore the theme of individuality.

A search for hidden organisms finds some that thrive in extreme conditions, and some that may live only in the imagination.

A man vanishes in Chicago, and his family struggles to survive.

This novel’s title characters are an unlikely couple.

In two middle-grade novels, boys pursue a passion for show business.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Fifty years ago, the Book Review was shuttered during a four-month newspaper strike — but the best-seller list rolled on.

At writers colonies like MacDowell and Yaddo, e-connections threaten to defeat the purpose of artistic retreat.

When The Atlantic published an article by Anne-Marie Slaughter with the title “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” the online response broke records for the magazine.

In “Lean In,” Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, encourages women to make their voices heard at the workplace.

Readers respond to a recent review of Napoleon A. Chagnon’s “Noble Savages.”

Readers respond to a recent review of Garry Wills’s “Why Priests?”

The events will celebrate the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who lived in New York City in 1929 and 1930.

The author of “Gilead” says that after “Housekeeping,” her greatest fear was writing “a fraudulent book simply to escape the embarrassments of having written only one novel.”

Mr. Toomey’s book concerns the search for life unlike any we have discovered to this point.

James Salter, Jonny Steinberg and Naomi Wallace are among the winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes.

Mr. Caro won his third Book Critics Circle award for the fourth volume in his life of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Siblings chafe against their assigned family roles in Lucinda Rosenfeld’s novel.

The discovery of a long-lost manuscript reveals the fate of an ancient German kingdom in Caleb Carr’s epic fantasy.