Since most of the books I buy these days are from secondhand stores, the one I'm reading now is a little old but still good. It's ...

Christopher Hitchens over the weekend wrote a story for Slate on the proper way to make tea. "It is already virtually impossible i...

Hello my dears, Have you been following journalist and critic Christopher Hitchens' courageous stories about living with stage four ...

The Paris Review has long been known for its wonderful writer profiles. Now, thanks to the Internet, you can access all the pieces online. I...

One of my favorite stories from the weekend papers: A Wall Street Journal Magazine profile of novelists Martin Amis and Isabel Fonseca. Th...

It's awards season for the books industry, and today the National Book Foundation announced its twenty finalists for the National Book...

The Franzen frenzy started a month ago when TIME magazine put the author on its cover and labeled him the "Great American Novelist....

The literary blogosphere continues to buzz with angst and dismay as thousands -- or maybe even millions -- of people learned the shocking ne...

My friend Carolyn Kellogg at the LA Times' fantastic Jacket Copy book blog had the most clever post today. She found a website -- calle...