Carl Phillips’s latest collection, Scattered Snows, To The North (Carcanet), is rich in his by-now familiar long, ...

If New Orleans were to ... The speaker of that poem is absolutely not me. However, that line is rather tongue-in-cheek — I mean it to be heard as funny. But I actually value the fact that ...

What makes a good self-help book? The excellent book mentioned here is Philippa Perry’s The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read. Rebecca Watson’s column also contains mention of Cate Blanchett’s ...

Robert Snyder’s new book draws upon the stories of 45 New Yorkers representing a wide spectrum of professions.

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Young Writer of the Year Award; Eoin McNamee and fallow journal launches; AE ...

"Are you going to call it ‘A Tale of Two Bookshops’?" Craig Florence, owner of Mother Foucault's asks. We are not. The ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

With a new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), out on Friday, it’s a big week for Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist ...

Tony Hinchcliffe has a Netflix deal, Andrew Cuomo might be mayor and Mel Gibson could get guns again. Why not?

As a rule, Jeff Foxworthy never refuses autograph requests, but the redneck comedy legend hit a wall during a funeral-home ...

The former Vanity Fair editor recalls a time when the expense accounts were limitless, the photo shoots were lavish, and the ...

For these young Palisades Charter High School journalists, it's the story of their lives, covering the aftermath of the ...