A blue notebook holds the key to the overintricate plot of Paul Auster’s new novel about a blocked writer from—how did you guess?—Brooklyn.

There’s a new Booker Prize in town, open to Americans—and an anxious backlash in response. Meet the new British literary insecurity.

His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author’s gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography.

Erik Larson’s new book balances beauty and terror in 1890s Chicago; Norman Mailer gives fiction lessons.

Nicole Krauss opens up about her curious life and her powerful second novel. Just don’t ask about her husband.

The Wedding
By Imraan Coovadia
A Mind of Its Own:
A Cultural History of the Penis
By David M. Friedman

Michel Faber has a striking talent for addressing lurid themes without resorting to the clichés of genre. .

In new memoirs, David Denby and Pete Rose explore the dark side of the American Dream. They didn’t plan to be quite so funny.

New novels by Hanif Kureishi and Chimo are attractively slender -- the book as accesory -- but there's less there than meets the eye.

The first installment of Bob Dylan’s autobiography is as lively, omnivorous, and endlessly weird as its subject.