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In a debut novel, history and family legacy — going back to the conquistadors — confound a man’s search for identity.

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Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.

In his new memoir, Junger, the veteran journalist, makes sense of — and an uneasy peace with — an experience few have survived.

Thomas Grattan’s queer coming-of-age novel “In Tongues” unfurls in the Manhattan art world at the turn of the millennium.

Kevin Kwan left Singapore’s opulent, status-obsessed, upper crust when he was 11. He’s still writing about it.

The departures of Reagan Arthur, who led Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, who held the top job at Pantheon and Schocken, came as a surprise to many in the company.

Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.

In Garth Risk Hallberg’s new novel, a teenage rebel and her father reconnect amid a sea of their own troubles.

In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.