A new biography -- and forthcoming collection -- unlock the genius of Bill Mauldin, journalist and cartoonist. Read more...

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The mysterious legacy of an audiotape unspools in a work that blends suspense and elegy. Read more...

How the concept of accident, from Aristotle to Buster Keaton, has shaped the way we understand the world. Read more...

The story of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate becomes a tale of a pivotal moment in American moviemaking. Read more...

Fay Weldon channels Boccaccio from inside the hot tub. Read more...

A journalist turned birder examines the connection between the human and avian soul. Read more...

The author of The Reader returns with the tale of a search for a lost father -- and a confrontation with a Nazi apologist's past. Read more...

Michael Dirda on the gripping, gossipy style of the Roman historian Suetonius. Read more...

Jon Sciescka's new Trucktown books take a stand: kids just want to have fun. Read more...

The heirs of Lenny Bruce and the comedy world they made. Read more...

A celebrated critic oversees the landscape of contemporary verse. Read more...

A child disappears into the heart of a Las Vegas night. Read more...

Katherine A. Powers on the brooding, dipsomaniac London of Patrick Hamilton. Read more...