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“My Name Is Barbra,” her long-awaited (and rather enormous) autobiography, doesn’t have an index. But here are the best bits.

Illustrators have made a living creating book covers. Now, artificial intelligence is learning to make art.

A new book by the author Jim Cullen explores the uncanny parallels between the careers of these two musicians, and how they were products of their time and place.

The author of “Icebreaker” and “Wildfire” has her own reasons for avoiding the limelight.

“I read them the way that people surf the internet today, maybe,” says the Wilco frontman, whose new memoir is “World Within a Song.” “So I know everything.”

For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth. In “The Woman in Me,” she asks us to take a second look.

Dann McDorman, the executive producer of “The Beat With Ari Melber,” gave up writing fiction in his 20s. Now, he’s publishing his first novel at age 47.

Some Jane Austen and a tennis rom-com are just right the right relief when news of fighting and war takes a toll.

In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.

While working on a new novel, “Mister, Mister,” the author Guy Gunaratne examined Britain’s political legacy, and underwent a deeply personal transformation.