The novelist Larry McMurtry looks back on his long second career as a bookseller.

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A close-up look at the creators of the likes of Facebook and YouTube.

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A philosopher aims to clarify the meaning of virtue, freedom and heroism and to take the measure of villainy.

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In this humanist story collection, Uwem Akpan drives home the miseries that afflict Africa.

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She?d worked in art history; now she was going to see the art.

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Today?s savvier consumers are said to be more impervious to advertising. Rob Walker says: nope.

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Miranda Seymour?s odd and oddly affecting memoir instantly catapults her father into the front rank of impossible and eccentric English parents.

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A debut novel about William Shakespeare and his American alter ego, a hash-smoking grad student named Willie Shakespeare Greenberg.

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New art and design books reviewed.

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The novelist Larry McMurtry looks back on his long second career as a bookseller.

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When the author?s mother dies, his father promptly begins dating again.

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Facing the memories of a father?s short life of hard drinking, cruelty and the circumstances that helped push him to those extremes.

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Frances Richey?s new collection of poems, ?The Warrior,? focuses on her relationship with her son, a Green Beret who has served two tours in Iraq.

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How a murder in Victorian England went unsolved for five years and led to the birth of the modern detective novel.

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In Natsuo Kirino?s novel, a juvenile killer on the run in Tokyo murders without conscience — and only in retrospect attempts to invent a philosophy to explain his crime.

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In this memoir, an Englishwoman falls in love with China and its food.

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Stephen L. Carter?s new thriller involves a clandestine fraternity that works to subvert democracy.

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A transversal cut through wit, not for laughs but to examine its mechanisms.

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A guided tour of the books on the self-help best-seller list.

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Mark LeVine discovered that the Islamic world has a surprisingly active heavy metal subculture.

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Christina Thompson?s tale of New Zealand combines memoir with cultural history.

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The short, wild life of Joe Slowinski, snake wrangler.

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David Maraniss argues that the 1960 Olympics ushered in a new generation of concerns and themes.

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The novel imagines strange happenings in a frozen-yogurt shop.

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In Joan Silber?s new book of stories, American characters are transformed by exposure to different cultures.

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