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Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove her to despair.

The rock journalist turned writer turned filmmaker styles himself “The Uncool” in his new book.

“Down Cemetery Road,” with Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson, arrives on Apple TV+ on Wednesday. It’s the latest thriller based on books by Herron, the “Slow Horses” author.

Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three Stephen King movie adaptations and how they differ from their source material.

Tim Wu’s “The Age of Extraction” is a dispiriting guide to the way Silicon Valley has warped our markets and our democracy.

New fiction by Salman Rushdie and Bryan Washington, a memoir by Margaret Atwood, devilish romantasy and more.

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage.

In a new essay collection, the novelist and critic offers her observations on artists, technology and a vanishing public commons.

Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel follows two teenagers determined to save a pair of ponies from slaughter.

In “Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta,” John Boessenecker probes the life of a dashing (but human) Wild West legend.