In February, three up-and-coming authors explore the ties that bind.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/04/11

Our intrepid editors have made our lists, checked them twice, and compiled the highlights into a can't-go-wrong gift guide.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/06/10

Many males fantasized about Marilyn Monroe, but few could climb into her lap on a regular basis. Scottish writer Andrew O’Hagan allows us to do just that in his fourth novel, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, December 6).  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/10

The original idea was to invite literary magazines and small publishers to nominate a reader to represent them; the basic concept, to have four writers read for seven minutes each, in competitions of two.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/03/10

The warnings peppered throughout 33-year-old Adam Levin’s debut novel, The Instructions (McSweeney’s), share one overarching theme: Beware Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/08/10

“Whatever you do in your life, you have to do it twice as well now.” This is what Celine Zilke’s grieving mother told Darin Strauss, the young man who accidentally killed her 16-year-old daughter.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/13/10

Did you remember that the bespectacled one came from a world of privilege?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/28/10

Wendy Burden, great-great-great-great granddaughter of the Cornelius Vanderbilt, has a lot of stories to tell.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/22/10