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

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

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

Nick Harkaway is an accomplished author who also happens to be le Carré’s son. In his latest book, “Karla’s Choice,” he ...

In “Heartbreak Is the National Anthem,” Rob Sheffield chronicles how Taylor Swift has made fans, foes and even journalists ...

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.

Donald Trump tapped the tech mogul to co-lead an effort to slash government spending, but questions abound over how such an ...

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 ...