books

Scotty Bower’s new memoir, “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” offers a lurid account of trawling an X-rated underworld.

Jeanette Winterson reviews a new book about Henry Miller's controversial novel "Tropic of Cancer."

"B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth" enters the paperback graphic books best-seller list at No. 7 this week.

A Swedish aeronaut made headlines with his 1897 attempt to reach the North Pole.

Orson Scott Card, whose novel “Shadows in Flight” hits the hardcover fiction list this week at No. 8, moonlights as a newspaper columnist who addresses everything from Christian rock to high school theater.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” which opened up the world of science fiction to a generation of girls.

A sense of history links the characters in Elliot Perlman’s novel.

The troubled women in Francesca Kay’s novel are caught up in strange happenings at a South London church.

A memoir by Zakes Mda, a writer who has flourished in democratizing South Africa.

How one semiautomatic became our weapon of choice.

Roger Crowley traces the rise and fall of Venice’s naval empire.

Stories and novels by Robert Walser, Alan Lightman, Karin Altenberg, Bret Lott and Daphne du Maurier.

Sara Wheeler’s experience with the rigors — and the literature — of polar exploration.

Edmund White’s novel follows the friendship of two libertines, from 1960s New York to the advent of AIDS in the ’80s.

Lori Andrews looks at how personal data is exploited by Web sites, search engines and other Internet technologies.

Cullen Murphy sees the Inquisition as a template for the war on terror.

A double biography of high-profile Muslim women, one who denounces Islam, the other, the West.

Marni Davis explores how Jews balanced assimilation with historical continuity during America’s failed “noble experiment.”

The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II.

The novel 'War Horse' sells more copies in two weeks than it did in its first 25 years.