The economic news couldn't be worse for the book industry. Now insiders are asking how literature will survive.
By Jason Boog Dec 23, 2008
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The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier.
By Sarah Hepola
March 28, 2008
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John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change.
By David Talbot
November 19, 2004
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Mark Twain, meet Ulysses S. Grant! Hart Crane, meet Charlie Chaplin! Rachel Cohen talks about the most intriguing encounters in U.S. history.
By Suzy Hansen
June 3, 2004
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Undaunted by the Iraq debacle, uber-hawks David Frum and Richard Perle air their fevered wet dream of a national-security superstate that slaps down uppity Muslims, bombs North Korea, slices and dices civil liberties and scatters the Palestinians like birdseed.
By Gary Kamiya
January 30, 2004
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A romantic explorer searches for a Pharaoh's tomb, while a cynical detective searches for the truth about the explorer. In this delightfully old-fashioned tale, they're both completely misguided.
By Laura Miller
September 2, 2004
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From 19th century seafaring yarn to nuclear-power muckraking to a cloned servant in the cyberpunk future, this dazzling series of interlocked narratives is one of the summer's biggest books.
By Laura Miller
September 2, 2004
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In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting.
By Aaron Hicklin
April 14, 2003
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The author of "The Devil's Candy" tells the true story of the ideal family man who suddenly plunged into homicidal madness.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 3, 2001
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Bertelsmann's deal with Napster proves once again that the media conglomerate is obsessed with being more than just a content company.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 2, 2000
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The Greatest Generation
By Non-Fiction | Random House, Inc
October 5, 2000
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AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books.
By Janelle Brown
August 8, 2000
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When a first-time author has his portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz, it changes his life -- at least while she's clicking the shutter.
By Brett Leveridge
April 7, 2000
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Nell and Cage: Crack team. Is she experienced? Bonnie Raitt spills all. Plus: The King and I -- Carter and Presley, together again.
By Amy Reiter
January 11, 2000
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Edmund Morris' biography of Ronald Reagan ruled nonfiction -- barely.
By Craig Offman
October 11, 1999
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Edmund Morris has conceived the life of Ronald Reagan as a movie. And it's a bomb.
By Charles Kaiser
October 7, 1999
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Editors ponder which bestseller list Edmund Morris' Reagan biography should go on.
By Craig Offman
October 2, 1999
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The mouse roars again: Did Disney deal spike an Eisner biography?
By Craig Offman
June 2, 1999
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Dwight Garner
reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
By Dwight Garner
December 24, 1997
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Overqualified and underpaid, publishing industry workers labor for love -- or something other than money.
By Morgan Cast
October 31, 1997
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Overqualified and grotesquely underpaid, publishing industry serfs labor for love -- or something other than money.
By Morgan Cast
October 31, 1997
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Dodging Pamela Anderson Lee autobiographies and "Soul Aerobics"
workouts at BookExpo, the tastes-great-less-filling successor to the late, unlamented ABA convention.
By David Futrelle
June 4, 1997
Read it and weep
Sweet Valley High goes on a diet
Old times there are not forgotten
The secret history of American literature
"An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle
"The Spooky Art" by Norman Mailer
"Facing the Wind" by Julie Salamon
Maverick or monopolist?
E-book 'em!
Glenn Greenwald
War Room