Charles Murray, author of “Coming Apart,” in Burkittsville, Md., his home for two decades.
The political scientist Charles Murray has a new book, “Coming Apart,” which depicts members of white elites as hypocrites living in a bubble and the white working class as succumbing to moral decay.
Anne Sebba looks at the Dutchess of Windsor in a new biography; Scotty Bowers’s memoir reveals Hollywood’s sexual secrets.
The best writer in a baseball uniform, Dirk Hayhurst pitched briefly for the 2008 San Diego Padres and the 2009 Toronto Blue Jays, and is now leaving the country to play and write in Italy.
For Nathan Englander, the novelist, short-story writer and soon-to-be playwright, Sundays are about spending quality time with his girlfriend and their puppy in Brooklyn.
Everywhere we turn, we’re being offered incentives to act a certain way. A new book ponders the ethical issues of the incentive culture.
Christopher Bram’s book is a critical and biographical survey of America’s gay writers in the second half of the 20th century.
In her new book, Patricia Cohen charts the invention and evolution of middle age and considers what the concept means today.
Ms. Gilman was best known for her “Mrs. Pollifax” series of books about a widow who goes to work as a secret agent.
A new translation of the original Kama Sutra, like the original manuscript, has no drawings but much detail and advice on sexuality and society.
Elmore Leonard
U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, now the star of the TV show “Justified,” returns to confront gambling, mining and organ trafficking in Elmore Leonard’s latest.
William J. Broad explores yoga’s winding path and weighs claims about the practice’s benefits.
William Burroughs’s letters from the years of his literary success.
Three books explore the true lives behind the fictional world of “Downton Abbey.”
Dan Chaon’s characters wander between ordinary lives and psychological shadowlands in this collection.
Film director Neil Jordan’s fifth novel follows two men who can pass for each other.
In a dialogue with another historian, Tony Judt reviews his life’s journey.
Toby Lester examines one of the world’s most intriguing drawings.
Through the lens of one household, Steve Erickson’s novel spans history, continents and realities.
A father describes, and rages at, the loss of his teenage son.
In Ramona Ausubel’s fablelike novel, a Romanian village shields itself from the Nazis through sheer force of imagination.
M. G. Lord sees feminist themes in the roles of Elizabeth Taylor.
An American couple’s marriage spins out of control after they become proprietors of a moldering Irish local.
Failed allusions produce feelings of betrayal on all sides. Is the speaker a snob or the listener a dolt?
Charles Dickens, who would have been 200 next month, had amazing energy, for writing and for life.
This week, Judith Newman discusses the real world behind “Downton Abbey”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Liesl Schillinger talks about Elizabeth Taylor’s feminist credentials; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
A book about JFK falls off the list, but RoseMarie Terenzio’s “Fairy Tale Interrupted,” about her years as John F. Kennedy Jr.’s executive assistant, enters the nonfiction hardcover list at No. 8.
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