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John Keegan, who is British, puts the Civil War into broad historical context amid history’s great conflicts, from the Napoleonic wars and World War I to Vietnam.

Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.

This big, comprehensive, flesh-and-blood account of Robert Altman’s persona and exploits draws on the voices of the filmmaker’s collaborators, critics and camp followers.

Ms. Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, was widely known for her book “The Girls in the Balcony.”

New fiction from Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Caputo, Emily Arsenault, William Styron, Lou Manfredo and Joshua Gaylord.

Paulo Coelho’s novel “The Alchemist” has sold more than 65 million copies since it was published in Brazil in 1988.

Mr. Kaminsky was a novelist who was widely known for his prodigious output, complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age.

Through hundreds of descriptions of pasta styles, the Italian food historian Oretta Zanini De Vita’s “Encyclopedia of Pasta” places pasta in its social and historical context.

Cake Wrecks, the popular blog and new book of the same name, celebrates the folly of professional confections gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Ralph Stanley, 82, is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians and only just got around to writing his autobiography.

Caroline Alexander’s book is not a new translation of “The Iliad” but an attempt at a fresh reading of it, one that focuses on what it has to say about the conduct and meaning of war.

Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors in electronic form.

Pete Dexter returns with an autobiographical novel, “Spooner,” a cradle-to-grave yarn about a well-meaning but wayward soul and his saintly stepfather.

The National Book Foundation named the finalists for its National Book Awards on Wednesday.

Next month McSweeney's will publish, of all things, a newspaper: McSweeney's 33 is to be in the form of a daily broadsheet -- a big, old-fashioned broadsheet.

The photographer Mitch Epstein routinely came under suspicion while taking pictures of dams and power plants for his new book, “American Power.”

This new novel pretentiously — and clumsily — tries to create a kind of virtual-reality game version of Manhattan.

At Hitchcon 09 in London, fans paid tribute to Douglas Adams, the author of the original "Hitchhiker's" radio plays and books, and a new "Hitchhiker's" novel by the "Artemis Fowl" author Eoin Colfer was released.