Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.

In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.

In “The Interpretation of Cats,” Claude Béata helps explain the inscrutable behavior of our feline companions.

She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.

JD Vance, a 40-year-old senator who transformed himself from a biting critic of Donald J. Trump to one of his fiercest ...

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God ...

Among a blizzard of announcements on Tuesday, the president-elect said he had chosen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, two of ...

A new drama by Edward Berger draws the audience inside this largely hidden tradition. How accurate is it? By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome When a pope dies, cardinals younger than 80 ...

The result, now No. 2 on the best-seller list, is a family story with celebrity cameos, not the other way around. Read our review here. “When you’re in the spotlight, people tend to speak for ...

Oliver was 52 when his fourth book, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” became a wholly unexpected best seller in 1986 ... oblivious to the Present. Lists of regrets, manufacture ...

But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country. ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its ...