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When Truman Capote was asked about his research for In Cold Blood, his 1966 masterpiece about the murders of a Kansas farm family, …

I’ve seen the future of sex, and its name is Robot as in humanoids designed and programmed to satisfy our every psychological …

Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a …

A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday.

If you read Stacy Cordery’s excellent new biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, you will gaze at Mount Rushmore and Theodore …

With targets as big as Mount Everest, reality TV, disaster movies and commercialization at the top of the world, you’d think …

Unlike Miss Skattergoods, Detective Oakwood did not have a large glass of gin to keep him occupied as he waited in the woods.

Before radio and TV dethroned the book, social reformers warned about reading too much, not too little.

Jo Nesbo’s thriller takes us back to World War II and the German occupation of his native country. Also, new books by Sue Grafton, Charles Todd and Qiu Xiaolong.

Poems from four decades by an author who was uprooted in the struggle against apartheid.

A novel imagines the free-spirited life of Mata Hari, a courtesan, femme fatale and, possibly, spy.

Will Self travels highways and byways — on foot — to reveal a different way of seeing.

Caryl Phillips experiments with three different voices in three grim tales of black men in Britain.

A British philosopher, long an atheist, finds God.

Sheldon M. Novick’s James led a life as emotionally, sexually and financially complex as those of the characters in his fiction.

Joseph Weisberg has used some of what he learned while training to be a case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency to write his latest novel, “An Ordinary Spy.”

At Harvard, some faculty and activists have been troubled that the university’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy helped revise the counterinsurgency field manual.

“London society was still somewhat amused by the gossip relating to the recently departed Dr. Johnson’s final exchange with the sour-natured Sir John Hawkins . . .”

This week: Will Self, author of “Psychogeography”; Liesl Schillinger on Yannick Murphy; David Kelly on Antony Flew and atheism; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review, is the host.

The idea behind BookCrossing.com is simple: You drop off a book in a public place, or pick up one someone else left behind.

“Overtreated,” by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve — but is so often misunderstood.

“Henry James’s phrases and sentences magically coalesced in the listener’s ear into an image of a person, of a situation . . .”

“The Children from Previous Relationships hung up their coats, and sat at their usual table on the public bar side of the pub as Septic Barry got the first round in from Mr Edwards, the landlord . . .”

“I have said in some of my later atheist writings that I reached the conclusion about the nonexistence of God much too quickly . . .”

Laura Archera Huxley was a writer who was best known for her memoir of her years with her husband, Aldous Huxley.