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Janet Maslin asks, Who is the real amateur in this pairing: the subject, President Obama, or the author, Edward Klein?

Ms. George’s home held a menagerie, as did her books, most of them written for children and young adults.

Read an online discussion of the novel “Time and Again,” by Jack Finney.

If the actor’s new memoir reads as if he’s sitting around telling stories, it’s because it was written that way.

Hugh Dancy, currently on Broadway in “Venus in Fur” and in the film “Hysteria,” wishes David Mitchell would match Philip Roth’s output.

Two new books — one about showing affection to boys, and another about the transition from Brooklyn to suburbia — offer vastly different takes on parenthood.

The author of "Bunch of Amateurs" on the rebellious spirit of American innovators.

Two Hasidic girls, united as a result of Nazi persecution, pursue opposite paths in this novel by Anouk Markovits.

Mr. Fuentes was Mexico’s elegant public intellectual and grand man of letters whose panoramic novels captured the complicated essence of his country’s history.

In Elisa Carbone’s “Heroes of the Surf,” two young boys travel from South America to New York City on a steamship that encounters rough waters.

Two young women fight for Britain during World War II.

As a Newsday journalist, Mr. McGrady led his colleagues in the creation of “Naked Came the Stranger,” a steamy parody novel.

On May 25, fans of Douglas Adams will honor the author’s memory with the annual Towel Day, a nod to Adams’s delirious novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

Two new books examine the current culture of motherhood: one bemoaning it and the other suggesting what might be done to improve the balance of work and family demands.

Some authors, like the novelist James Patterson, are producing 12 or more books a year to satisfy readers who are increasingly used to on-demand entertainment.

Six independent food magazines, featured at a recent book fair at the Wythe Hotel, to which you should hungrily subscribe.

Mr. Fuentes played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution.

The Bravo executive on his memoir, coming out and the ethics of the “Real Housewives.”

The author of “Friday Night Lights” goes on the road with his young-adult son, a savant with serious intellectual deficits, and writes an unflinchingly honest memoir.

A new book by a California psychologist examines obsessions with smartphones and other devices — and suggests ways to overcome the neediness.