Ted Sorensen, JFK’s chief counselor, talks about campaigns past and present.

Jonathan Franzen answers our questions about email, baseball, birds, and in-flight reading.

We talk with Nicholson Baker about his new book, Human Smoke, World War II, and the grain of events.

James Mustich talks with Richard Price about realism, project housing, and his new novel, Lush Life.

James Mustich talks with Geraldine Brooks about the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah and her new novel.

James Mustich talks with Philip Pullman about the power of storytelling and the film version of The Golden Compass.

Richard Peavar and Larissa Volokhonsky on translating War and Peace.

A conversation with the author about Nathan Zuckerman’s final bow.