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Lucy Ellmann’s novel follows the romantic escapades of a New York plastic surgeon who discovers his inner feminist.

Two novellas, three stories, shared memories.

Clive Davis reviews his career as a hit-maker.

Alex Berenson’s superspy tries to rescue four relief workers kidnapped by a Somali warlord.

In Renata Adler’s reissued novels, vignette follows vignette.

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.