Only his father’s death could get tough guy James…

Alameddine's latest is a National Book Award finalist and exquisite. Aaliyah Sobhi is 72 years old. She lives alone in her Beirut apartment, and occupies herself by translating books into Arabic. Long divorced and childless, she has the freedom to let her

Author Cheryl Strayed discusses her memoir, "Wild," and her collection of Dear Sugar columns from The Rumpus, "Tiny Beautiful Things."

In The Remedy for Love, a Maine lawyer runs into an unkempt looking young woman at the grocery store and lends a hand at her spartan cabin in the woods. But a huge snowstorm is on the way and the two of them end up there together, running out of food, wat

Electric City tells the story of the rise and fall of a town along the Hudson River where, in 1887, Thomas Edison relocated his Edison Machine Works. The novel shows the changes in the town and the people who live there right up through the 1960s when a

Caroline Moorehead's Village of Secrets tells the story of a small French village known as Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Located in a remote and nearly inaccessible section of eastern France, it served as a sanctuary for Jews and others wanted by the Nazis durin

A Long Island podiatrist stumbles on a bottle of horseradish on a cold Friday night and, in his anger, thoughtlessly chucks it through the window of a local business. That broken window sets of a chain of events, unexpected and hilarious, in the podiatris

The Radiance of Tomorrow follows residents of a village in Sierra Leone who return to their home after a devastating civil war has wiped out the place, as well as many of their loved ones.

Celeste Ng was at the Morristown Festival of Books talking about her terrific new novel, Everything I Never Told You. The book traces the life of the Lees, an Asian-American family living in 1970s Ohio.

At the Brooklyn Book Festival in September 2014, Jaime Clarke, Andre Dubus III, and Joshua Ferris talked about technology in their latest work and in their own lives.