S.A. Cosby, king of Southern noir, has sold the rights to his forthcoming book 'King of Ashes' after fielding a dozen bids.

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Microsoft will attempt to find the sweet spot between the speed of social media and the lasting impact of books with its own ...

In 'City of Night Birds,' Juhea Kim takes on the cost of artistic obsession and the tradeoffs between personal life and ...

The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has ...

In her new collection of Wall Street Journal columns, Pulitzer Prize-winner Peggy Noonan writes about the history and ...

Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg pay homage to the ongoing human quest for knowledge by documenting its evolution through ...

What are first edition books? And how can you tell if a book is a first edition? We teamed up with our colleagues at the Macmillan Archives to help answer these questions. If you're a fan of ...

As the holiday season gets underway in November, book publishers are gearing up with seasonally and thematically appropriate releases. You’ll find your standard feel-good generational tales like ...

By Alexandra Jacobs Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.