Some people have epiphanies in church, others atop mountains. Haruki Murakami‘s came on April 1, 1978, on the grassy knoll behind Jingu Baseball [...]

For the past 10 years, the most dreaded literary critic in America has been a tall, thin, agreeable Englishman from Durham with a [...]

Publishers in North America churned out more than 200,000 books last year. That means in the time it takes you to read this [...]

A glance at the “E” section of your local bookstore would probably not give the impression that Louise Erdrich is a woman willing [...]

The word “happy” does not fit easily into Peter Carey’s mouth. Under normal circumstances, it dribbles off his lip on a trickle of [...]

It would require some luck to peg the trim, thoughtfully bearded 50-year-old man sitting in the fading afternoon light as a foreign correspondent. [...]

Geraldine Brooks may have hung up her press pass, but the foreign correspondent turned novelist has retained a journalist’s knack for blending in.Exhibit [...]

2007 was a grim year for the book industry, but not for the books themselves. As newspapers took deep cuts out of their [...]

Forget about silkscreened T-shirts, mixtapes or even the Sharper Image catalog of wonders, there’s nothing as personal as a book. For every personality, [...]

You can’t open a publication these days without stumbling upon a personal essay. Unfortunately, the awkward confessions outnumber the moving ones, and the [...]