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Almost half a century after his death in 1967, the folk singer Woody Guthrie hits the extended hardcover fiction list with the novel “House of Earth,” new at No. 20.

Charles Joseph Scarborough, known to almost everyone as “Joe,” is a man of many parts.

In “Ike and Dick,” Jeffrey Frank writes about the strange relationship that would help shape America’s foreign and domestic agenda for much of the 20th century.

How an early plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was foiled.

In “Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism,” John Burt highlights the difficulties Lincoln confronted in steering between philosophical principle and practical politics.

A reader responds to a recent review of Ros Barber’s “Marlowe Papers.”

A reader responds to a recent review of Charles R. Morris’s “Dawn of Innovation.”

A reader responds to a recent review of “Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science.”

A reader responds to a recent review of “The Pinecone.”

A reader responds to a recent review of “The Lady and Her Monsters.”

Readers respond to a recent review of Edward Ball’s book “The Inventor and the Tycoon.”

Amity Shlaes depicts Calvin Coolidge as a paragon of a president, less for what he did than for what he did not do.

The Knight Foundation says it should not have paid Jonah Lehrer $20,000 for a speech.

The author of “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” recently met Louise Erdrich, but all she could say was something like “Hey, Louise, are these pimentos in the dip?”

Leon Wieseltier will share the Dan David Prize, which is given annually to honor “contributions to humanity,” with the French philosopher Michel Serres.

Ever since the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. Navy SEALs have been in the spotlight.

Bruce Feiler draws on his own family in writing 'The Secrets of Happy Families.'

“Pride and Prejudice” has been published with radically different covers over the course of two centuries.

"The Man in the High Castle," Dick's novel of alternate history and mysticism, and an early meditation on the nature of reality, is being developed for a television adaptation by Frank Spotnitz, a writer and producer of "The X-Files," and Ridley Scott, the director of "Blade Runner."

Lawyer-turned-novelist Tara Conklin explores slavery and the question of justice.