A page from the final draft of a latechapter of “Gone With the Wind.”
A Connecticut library will display four chapters of the final typescript of “Gone With the Wind,” which many thought had been destroyed.
In a new book, Paul Allen describes the years with his co-founder, Bill Gates.
This picture book traces the history of New Jersey’s beleaguered Meadowlands ecosystem through its industrial nadir to the stubborn re-emergence of its indigenous wildlife.
In this new study, Joseph Lelyveld re-examines and humanizes Gandhi.
Toby Wilkinson, a British scholar, traces the strengths and vulnerabilities of a civilization that keeps its hold on the imagination.
A Web site security measure is also a project to transform old books, magazines, newspapers or pamphlets into accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text files.
In the 10th and, we’re told, final Kurt Wallander crime novel, Henning Mankell kills off his hero — sort of.
John Darnton, a former New York Times reporter and editor, examines the myths he grew up with about his father, who died while reporting during World War II.
Amanda Hocking, after nine self-published books, agrees to sell a four-book series to St. Martin’s Press.
Christina Haag, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s onetime lover, relives a youth of romance and adventure in this memoir.
Google may seek help from Congress as it tries to salvage a book publishing settlement that was rejected by a federal judge.
Gandhi, circa 1906.
Joseph Lelyveld’s vivid, nuanced and cleareyed study of Mahatma Gandhi focuses on his role as a social reformer, in both South Africa and in India.
We have a deep desire to know the future. But the journalist Dan Gardner argues that forecasts by experts are rarely more accurate than a guess.
Jimmy Breslin on Branch Rickey, who laid the groundwork for integrating baseball. Neil Lanctot on Roy Campanella, who helped lead the way.
A novel of a Midwesterner’s coming-of-age in a world of art and money.
A legacy of mysticism and fear haunts three generations of in Sheri Holman’s novel.
The Swiss writer Peter Stamm imagines a man caught between a charming, frigid wife and a plain but devoted mistress.
A historian asks whether the country might have spared itself the carnage of the Civil War.
These eight tales are linked by the suffering that abounds in a small, poverty-stricken town.
Edith Piaf embraced life passionately, even at its cruelest; Carolyn Burke’s biography surveys the mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.
A biography of Will Rogers reminds us that the happy-go-lucky comedian was also a powerful political insider.
Alex von Tunzelmann reconstructs an era when Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were cold war battlegrounds.
The intersecting lives of two gay Americans who were involved in issues like civil rights and the Vietnam War.
How the scientific attempt to describe the underlying order of the cosmos played out in the life of Isaac Newton.
The journalist Peter Godwin’s latest chronicle of the horrors of Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
In this German novel, a children’s book and the dog of the title reflect the tragic history of a menage-a-trois.
How a struggle over land led to war between whites and Indians in Washington Territory in the mid-1800’s.
Even when Oprah’s magazine wraps it in fashion, poetry can’t approach mass culture with any sense of swagger.
Mystery novels by Henning Mankell, Maisie Dobbs, Michael Robertson and Louis Bayard.
Featuring Joseph Lelyveld on Gandhi’s years in South Africa; and John Schwartz on a new biography of Will Rogers.
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A daughter learns hidden family history through her mother’s memoirs and autobiographical novels.
Marvel, which has produced comics in various forms since 1939, is enjoying a hard-fought moment in the spotlight while it grapples with adapting to the 21st century.
Ms. Jones was a creator of the Chrestomanci series and other works that imagined magical worlds with a skeptical eye.
Mr. Nevin’s best-known book, “Dream West,” told the epic tale of John Charles Frémont’s role in the opening of the American West.
In her 1989 book, “Maternal Thinking,” she gave motherhood its philosophical due by analyzing the practices and intellectual disciplines involved in raising children.
The idea to study the human propensity for making mistakes came to Kathryn Schulz “basically out of the ether.”
Sammy Hagar may have lost his job fronting Van Halen, but he zooms to the top of the hardcover nonfiction list this week with “Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock.”
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