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Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

A blues novel; a baseball tell-all.

Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.

The awards, which celebrate the best of American literature, are expanding the definition of who qualifies.

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.

A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence.

Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House’s C.E.O., is a behind-the-scenes operator with a significant task: leading the company after a period of messy, and expensive, turbulence.