The Walking Dead gets a brain transplant in the form of new showrunner Glen Mazzara.

Writing guru Ben Marcus has finally learned an important lesson. His own.

Deep in the bowels of Bellevue, a hospital whose name still strikes fear in older hearts, odd and fascinating creatures take shape, the fruit of a shocking experiment.

St. Mark’s Bookshop is hardly a typical bookstore.

For the second year in a row, the National Book Award for fiction went to a near-complete unknown.

E-books are more than a publishing platform—they’re a ­whole new literary form.

In his chatty new history of gossip, conservative intellectual Joseph Epstein just can’t help himself.

The secret subject of Joan Didion’s work has always been her troubled daughter. Her wrenching new memoir tells us why.

Debut novels are big business again. But what are publishers shelling out for?

Acid commentaries from Timothy Leary’s just-revealed archive.