Don DeLillo
The author on his new novel Point Omega, time and loss, Teilhard de Chardin, and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Point Omega
The author of Underworld and Falling Man ensnares readers in another “imaginative act of empathy” and leaves us “suspended in…
Tracking the True Roberto Bolaño
Last interviews and an early novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666.
Churchill: A Life
One of the most contradictory personalities of the 20th century turned out to be one of its most pivotal.
Just Kids
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a passionate friendship that rocked the music and art worlds.
The Ticking Is the Bomb
In an act of daring juxtaposition, the award-winning poet and memoirist meditates on the arrival of his child in a…
The Swan Thieves
The new novel by the author of The Historian turns away from vampires to obsessions of more mortal flesh.
Anne Tyler
An email conversation with the author about her new book, the work of planning a novel, and what books she’d…
Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 3: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
An ambitious novel brings urgent suspense to a philosophical question: how we can know what our words really mean?
Charles Dickens
The first major biography of the writer in two decades offers a stunningly detailed portrait of a life steeped in…
The Pleasures of Cooking for One
A cookbook for when dinner doesn’t require a party.
News of the World
Poems that evoke the dynamism and variety of midcentury America — and elsewhere.
The Talented Miss Highsmith
The life of one of the greatest of crime writers was as darkly shadowed as any of her creations.
The War That Killed Achilles
Caroline Alexander journeys back to the mother of all battles.
Too Much Happiness: Stories
One of the defining creators of contemporary short fiction suggests she has new territories in sight.
The Lacuna
A adventures of a Zelig-like figure are the center of the new novel from the author of The Poisonwood Bible.
Under the Dome
A town’s mysterious encapsulation yields a nightmarish turn toward the brutal.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s most famous creation mingles with his maker and her circle.
Traveling with Pomegranates
The author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter pen an unusual memoir of travel and self-discovery.