Humor: Wayward Authors Nabbed!
/The startling revelations in Anonymous turn out to be only the beginning: literary sleuths have uncovered a slew of other authorial misdemeanors.
Read MoreBook Review: The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
/A heapingly generous helping of the letters of history's most popular novelist
Read MoreThe Hero of His Own Life?
/It's easy to love the Dickens we think we know--the man whose warm compassion and boundless imagination gave us Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Magwitch, Oliver Twist and Nancy. But what about the man behind the novels? Claire Tomalin's magisterial new biography brings us up close and personal.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2011
/In this year's special feature, our team of avid readers offered some suggestions for books a little off the beaten path of summer blockbusters.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2011 Goes On
/More of this year's special feature, where we offered some less predictable ideas for books to tuck into your beach tote or suitcase.
Read MoreOne Common Reader
/Virginia Woolf imagined the Almighty seeing us coming towards Paradise, books in hand: "We have nothing to give them, they have loved reading." But does reading always bring salvation?
Read MoreThe Prodigal Brothers
/Ever since Cain and Abel, literature has reserved a prominent place for sterling heroes -- and the flawed, grasping, and entirely more interesting brothers who live in their shadow.
Read MoreGeorge Eliot for Dummies
/Free thinker, strong-minded woman, scholar, lover, novelist: George Eliot lived a courageous life that should be known and celebrated. But does Brenda Maddox's biography do it justice?
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