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An updated and more inclusive look at the popped-collar, tonic water-drinking preppy set.
An updated and more inclusive look at the popped-collar, tonic water-drinking preppy set.

“Skippy Dies” by Paul Murray has a lot on its mind: M-theory, lost youth, Irish history and parallel dimensions, not to mention sex, drugs and schoolboy humor.

“The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration of blacks in America, took 15 years and much hands-on research to finish.

Questions for the British architect John Pawson, who has a new monograph out next month.

In novels and biographies, Ms. Jenkins looked at lives with a psychological dimension.

Dr. Chopra's fictionalized biography about the life of the Prophet Muhammad, will go on sale early in e-book form, weeks ahead of the print book's publication date of Sept. 21.

Peter Morgan, the screenwriter of "The Queen," sees a similarity between his script for that film and a scene from Tony Blair's memoir, "A Journey."

Sheffield's most recent memoir is "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut."

A distinguished historian excels in teasing out the origins of the singer-songwriter's artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, and the multiple sources of his art.
A distinguished historian excels in teasing out the origins of the singer-songwriter's artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, and the multiple sources of his art.

Stephen Hawking new pop-science book, about the origins of our universe, got attention for a passage about God.

Yu, the author of the novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe," is also a full-time lawyer. We asked, If writing became lucrative enough, would he ever quit the day job?

Six authors, including Tom McCarthy for his novel "C" and Emma Donoghue for "Room," were named on Tuesday to the shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.

In “Vida” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither.

Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.

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The stacks. Portland, Oregon, 2010.