“The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration of blacks in America, took 15 years and much hands-on research to finish.

“Skippy Dies” by Paul Murray has a lot on its mind: M-theory, lost youth, Irish history and parallel dimensions, not to mention sex, drugs and schoolboy humor.

Questions for the British architect John Pawson, who has a new monograph out next month.

In novels and biographies, Ms. Jenkins looked at lives with a psychological dimension.

Dr. Chopra's fictionalized biography about the life of the Prophet Muhammad, will go on sale early in e-book form, weeks ahead of the print book's publication date of Sept. 21.

Peter Morgan, the screenwriter of "The Queen," sees a similarity between his script for that film and a scene from Tony Blair's memoir, "A Journey."

Sheffield's most recent memoir is "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut."

Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.

Yu, the author of the novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe," is also a full-time lawyer. We asked, If writing became lucrative enough, would he ever quit the day job?

Six authors, including Tom McCarthy for his novel "C" and Emma Donoghue for "Room," were named on Tuesday to the shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.

The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.

In “Vida,” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither.

Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.

Mystery novels by Sara Paretsky, Charles Todd, Jeff Lindsay and Susan Hill.

Charles Yu wraps his lonely story of a time machine repairman in glittering layers of gorgeous meta-science-fiction.

This novel’s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.

A New Yorker travels to Israel to make amends with her settler sister in this novel about American Jews in the Holy Land.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.