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The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag.

In his memoir, “What Have We Here?,” the actor writes about his friendships with Hollywood icons and literary lions.

Deborah Crossland, the author of “The Quiet Part Out Loud,” recommends some of her favorite Y.A. reimaginings of classical myths.

The Museo Bodoniano in Parma, Italy, is a mecca for one of the world’s most enduring, and ubiquitous, typefaces. Meet Giambattista Bodoni, the “prince of typography.”

Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel, “Headshot,” spotlights eight boxers in a national tournament and the struggles of their inner lives.

He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Here’s where to start.

A new survey shows that more people of color are working in the book business, but the industry remains overwhelmingly white.

In her new memoir, “Grief Is for People,” Sloane Crosley works through the death of a beloved friend and mentor.

In “Means of Control” and “The Sentinel State,” modern governments wield high-tech snooping gear while relying on old methods of social surveillance.

In “Normal Women,” Philippa Gregory gives us nine centuries of real-life heroines, murderers, boxers and brides.