For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are ...

If you don’t already know the name Norman Brokaw — an agent to the biggest stars of the twentieth century — you’ll remember it after reading his fascinating biography, Driving Marilyn: The Life and ...