Elizabeth Taylor

Why would anyone with a slavish devotion to hearing The Moth podcasts (themoth.org) — true stories, told live and without notes — wish to read them in a book? After...

It used to be that April was the cruelest month for high school seniors applying to colleges, but with rolling acceptance and early action, college admissions are a year-round affair...

It used to be that April was the cruelest month for high school seniors applying to colleges, but with rolling acceptance and early action, college admissions are a year-round affair...

A fever dream of a novel, Alexander Maksik's "A Marker to Measure Drift" may be set on the shores and in the villages of a small island in the Aegean...

Scary books and scary movies have not been my thing — my defense has always been that life is scary enough. In recent years, though, hometown stars Gillian Flynn, Sara...

Though only a relatively few students attend East Coast boarding schools, that milieu provides wonderfully fertile ground for the imagination — think of Curtis Sittenfeld's novel "Prep" and the film...

He captured my attention with his resonant short story "Vigilance," about a father who is summoned by the police to answer questions about his missing child. With his new novel,...

He captured my attention with his resonant short story "Vigilance," about a father who is summoned by the police to answer questions about his missing child. With his new novel,...

With a dazzling new cover and smart new introduction, one of my favorite novels, "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara, is reborn. Before some of you head back to school...