The charmed, tortured writer’s life of Gay Talese.

A novelist who’s imagined the end of the world turns to an even more apocalyptic period: adolescence.

Macaulay Culkin on his first novel, Michael Jackson, and the self-consciousness of fame.

The confessions of an obit addict.

Marshall Berman’s history of Times Square hops, skips, and two-steps all over the twentieth century.

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

Two novelists find rich material in competing Soviet legacies: artistic genius and thuggish repression.

Marc Weingarten’s history of the New Journalism sets down the facts well. But wasn’t that the old journalism?

Rafi Zabor’s 'I, Wabenzi' is a wild ride through grief—until it hits a disappointing detour.

Joshua Wolf Shenk elegantly argues that Abraham Lincoln’s depression was the fire beneath his ambition.