Books

The Star’s incredibly well-read man in letters bids an insightful farewell to the year that was.

In the second volume of Neal Gabler’s monumental biography, Ted Kennedy’s progressive priorities run up against a resurgent American right.

In this slim and lyrical novel, Max Little, an author with a fatal disease, ponders what’s ahead while dreading having to tell his wife.

This nonfiction play-turned-book amusingly showcases two artistic giants as if they were at a gossipy lunch.

In A.M. Homes’s latest, “The Unfolding,” it’s the revenge of the rich, white Republicans against a backdrop of family discord.

A poet and author of picture books contemplates dealing with anger.

Jann Wenner was in the right place (San Francisco) at the right time (1967). Not to diminish the man's achievements as a magazine magnate. Here’s his story.

From a series of poems on full moons and the Algonquins.

“Death of a Salesman” made Arthur Miller, rich, famous, and admired. So how was he “defeated” by Marilyn Monroe?

A highly readable portrait of a writer and filmmaker whose life and work were intertwined.

A reading celebrates Anne Porter’s poetry, and a talk hails Mary Rodgers’s bitingly funny memoir.

John Irving’s new doorstop of a novel vividly sums up a lifetime’s worth of themes, from family to sex to identity.