Noticed
In Their Own Words? Maybe
By JULIE BOSMAN
There is an understanding among publishers, editors and agents that ghostwriters are behind many novels by celebrities.
Bill James, known for his analysis of baseball statistics, tackles data pertaining to well-known murders.
In Ann Patchett’s new novel, a research scientist goes outside her comfort zone, to the Amazon jungle, to help solve the mystery of a colleague’s death.
There is an understanding among publishers, editors and agents that ghostwriters are behind many novels by celebrities.
Philip Connors, the author of “Fire Season,” spends his summers living in a remote cabin in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, where he is on the lookout for fires.
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen gave up a long commute to promote a do-it-yourself revolution from their home in Los Angeles.
A field biologist and ornithologist’s illustrated journal of a four-month scientific voyage on the Pacific Ocean.
John Donohue has assembled a collection of essays and recipes by men who love cooking.
Georgina Bloomberg’s new book, “The A Circuit,” is about a family headed by a blunt-talking Wall Street billionaire who lives in a Manhattan town house and “owns half of New York.”
A slew of cookbooks have been published to help bakers navigate a gluten-free kitchen.
Haley Tanner’s “Vaclav & Lena” is a story of two Russian immigrants who first meet at age 6 in an English as a Second Language class at their Brooklyn school.
In this tripartite story of brain, art and family life, the author aces the first part but comes up surprisingly short in the other two.
New poetry by Dean Young, Dorianne Laux , Jim Moore, Tom Sexton and Laura Kasischke.
The Texas novelist Stephen Harrigan has been successful, but never in fashion among the New York literary set.
The beach book this summer is likely to have new names and new twists, even when it comes to Scandinavian mysteries.
David McCullough explores the intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century visitors.
Tattered documents, dating back centuries, endure in a synagogue.
The narrator of Jim Krusoe’s novel tries to find a way for the living to get through to the dead.
Tessa Hadley’s novel is divided between two characters who once intersected for an affair.
A new translation brings a revered body of Indian verse into sharper relief.
In Roddy Doyle’s stories, characters struggle with the funk brought on by middle age.
An account of the financial crisis highlights individuals who played crucial roles of responsibility.
Admitting he’s been bored for large tracts of his life, a classicist offers a history of his affliction.
Since the ’80s, Brandon L. Garrett writes, DNA testing has exonerated over 250 people convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
Noah Webster was a journalist, reformer and lexicographer.
Jane Gross recounts her struggle to help an infirm parent and offers practical advice on eldercare.
With new books challenging our collective memory, can we still take pride in World War II?
Qaddafi’s Green Book mixes utopian socialism and Arab nationalism with a streak of Bedouin supremacism.
The historian David McCullough talks about his new book, “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris” and the business reporter Gretchen Morgenson describes the causes of the Wall Street implosion.
Why “run” has surpassed “set” as the word with the most meanings.
When the two poets descended on the Swiss lake in 1816, the plan was poetry and pleasure. The result? Frankenstein, vampires and a love child.
Celebrities may rule the best-seller list, but psychopaths rule the world — or so suggests Jon Ronson, author of “The Psychopath Test.”
It shouldn’t be surprising that a writer whose work includes a story collection called “Throw Like a Girl” should have strong opinions on the pigeonholing of writers by gender.
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