Still looking for a summer book that isn’t 100 percent trashy? Perhaps even one that’s 100 percent non-trashy (say, on Spinoza)? Here are five new(ish) titles that we’re particularly enthused about.

And she hopes you’ll love her new movie. Just not too much.

Philip Roth confronts age and beauty, and turns—well, not exactly sentimental, but surprisingly warm.

Will Tony meet a gruesome fate? Or go down stoically in a simple hail of bullets? We asked six writers to imagine a fitting conclusion.

“Netlets” like the WB and UPN weren’t a failed experiment. They were simply ahead of their time.

Ayelet Waldman—the writer New York moms love to hate—strikes back with a novel about Manhattan motherhood.

Mary Gaitskill used to be the downtown princess of darkness. Now she’s happily married and lives on a country lane. But she still writes with an icy insight into life’s little cruelties.

The creator of Alias strands 48 plane crash survivors on a tropical island.

The notorious, best-selling ‘Gossip Girl’ series laid bare the titillating, too-much-too-soon world of private-school Manhattan. But what will happen now that its creator is moving on to new obsessions?