Flavor-of-the-month novelists strut and fret their moment upon the literary stage and are heard no more, while Francine Prose relentlessly churns out quiet masterpieces year after year. I talked with Prose about life, literature, feminism and the pursuit of guilty pleasures.

Many other animals make tools. Dolphins recognize themselves in mirrors. Elephants mourn their dead. But what other creatures share stories -- and share them with people they don't even know?

Books on our radar: what's just come out or about to come out that we think you should know about. Some have buzz, some will fly too low, but we wante...

Bestselling mystery writer Thomas Perry is just one of the dozens of authors who will name characters in their books after you -- if you are the highe...

Francine Prose The New York Review of Books A Knife at the Door "Lit: A Memoir" by Mary Karr Harper, 386 pp., $25.99 In an introduction to the tent...

Jonathan Kirsch Author and book editor of The Jewish Journal It's no accident that November is Jewish Book Month, because the "People of the Book" ...