Where to take your out-of-towners this holiday season, in one act.

The Tony Award–winning star of Spring Awakening, spoke to Boris Kachka about trading rock for evil.

How do you top Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, whose vicious performances in Speed-the-Plow raised the bar as high as it can go?

Crusading publisher Barney Rosset is Obscene in a good way.

The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing might have to look for its future outside the corporate world.

In depicting his daughter's first psychotic break, Michael Greenberg sought to fill in something “missing in the literature of madness.”

Maybe you’ve heard a little something about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife.

More fun than learning a new language: Reading one.

A novel about slavery in which race is almost incidental.

Elizabeth Marvel on rats in the theater (human and otherwise).