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).

When they wanted virile, they called in Peter Sarsgaard.

If there is such a thing as a typical New York upbringing, Michael Agovino knows nothing about it.

Sam Shepard takes on cowboy poseurs—and his own iconhood.