John Barth: The Development

The author of The Development on autumnal themes and getting on with the story. Read more...

Philip Roth: Indignation

The author on Indignation, panty raids, and the Korean War. Read more...

John Adams

The composer of Doctor Atomic on composing an American life.

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Neal Stephenson: Anathem

The SF legend on Anathem, Snow Crash, fountain pens, and more. Read more...

Bob Woodward

The legendary reporter answers questions from the Barnes & Noble Review. Read more...

Watteau A-to-Z

A talk with
Jed Perl on Antoine's Alphabet and the art of seeing, plus a Gallery slideshow. Read more...

Renee Fleming

The famed soprano on Richard Strauss, jazz, poetry, and her latest projects. Read more...

Garry Wills: What the Gospels Meant

Garry Wills discusses the genesis of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John. Read more...

An Email Conversation with Jonathan Franzen

The author of The Corrections shares his thoughts about fiction in the Internet age and much, much more. Read more...

Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn

Salman Rushdie discusses the Mughal Empire, Machiavelli, and the storytelling that animates his new novel.

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Theodore Sorensen: Counselor

Ted Sorensen, JFK’s chief counselor, talks about campaigns past and present. Read more...

Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke

We talk with Nicholson Baker about his new book, Human Smoke, World War II, and the grain of events. Read more...

Richard Price: Lush Life

James Mustich talks with Richard Price about realism, project housing, and his new novel, Lush Life. Read more...

Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book

James Mustich talks with Geraldine Brooks about the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah and her new novel. Read more...

Philip Pullman: The Storyteller's Art

James Mustich talks with Philip Pullman about the power of storytelling and the film version of The Golden Compass. Read more...

Translating Tolstoy: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Richard Peavar and Larissa Volokhonsky on translating War and Peace. Read more...

Roth on Zuckerman's Curtain Call

A conversation with the author about Nathan Zuckerman’s final bow. Read more...

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Happy Money

“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of the oldest clichés around, but what if it’s all about how you use it? Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton give compelling advice on how to get the most pleasure out of your piggy bank.

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia. 

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret.  A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.