Haruki Murakami's new book went on sale in Japan on Friday, but dozens of enthusiastic fans marked the release at a countdown ...

Vinson Cunningham’s new novel, Great Expectations, is a thinly veiled fictional account of his own experience as a young man working on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Obama isn’t mentioned ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, we published two essays about new books featuring unusual, surprising female ...

What: Discussion with Anne Snyder, editor-in-chief of Comment Magazine and author of the 2019 book, “The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing Our Social and Moral Landscape.” It’s ...

THE MAN WHO HAD POWER OVER WOMEN by Gordon M. Williams. 319 pages. Stein and Day. $5.95. Thanks to a leering title, bales of advance ballyhoo and the promise that it would expose the really “in” ...