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A summer home both shelters and isolates the family in Elizabeth Graver’s multigenerational novel.

A 10-year-old with a hallucinatory consciousness is reclaimed from a monastery by his mother.

Michael Moss reveals how food companies use science to maximize our cravings for their products.

Pat Summitt, the renowned women’s basketball coach who won eight national championships at the University of Tennessee, is now a No. 1 best-selling author, with the memoir “Sum It Up.”

Sarah Manguso’s tastes have always run to memoirs that test and topple the boundaries of the form.

In this memoir, Emily Rapp describes the months after learning of her young son’s fatal genetic disorder.

Forget fictionalized memoirs. More troubling are the countless novels tainted by elements of truth.

A collection of letters between Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee, in which the writers attempt to “strike sparks off each other.”

Timothy Geithner is writing a book and a long-lost Stevenson essay has been discovered.

Get an exclusive look at the book, which blends two unlikely things: The Bard and Jedi.

These five books extoll the virtues of spending time alone.

Bookish interviews the author of 'Vampires in the Lemon Grove' and 'Swamplandia!'

Patterson's character Alex Cross began as a woman, and other revelations.

In Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, a curse infects Princeton, N.J., beginning in 1905 when a new bride is abducted by a demon in front of a church congregation.

Readers respond to a recent essay by Teddy Wayne.

Readers respond to a recent interview with Garry Wills.

A reader responds to a recent review of Amity Shlaes’s “Coolidge.”

The chief operating officer of Facebook and author of “Lean In” doesn’t like to use the iPad Kindle app on the elliptical. “When you get sweaty, you can’t turn the pages.”

The Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History probably won’t be as exciting as it might have been.

The archives include diaries that Powell’s biographer had tried and failed to sell at auction last year.