Imagine a world where scientific breakthroughs are kept under lock and key. This is the terrifying scenario in Daniel Suarez's innovative and thought-provoking new novel,...

"Romance Is My Day Job" (Dutton), by Patience Bloom   Patience Bloom works for a publishing house that's best known for its steamy romances with happy endings.   In...

"The Counterfeit Agent" (Putnam), by Alex Berenson   With spy novels there is a tendency to divide writers into two groups: There are the literary John Le Carre types, with...

"Mad as Hell: The Making of 'Network' and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies" (Times Books), by Dave Itzkoff   You'll be forgiven if you think the...

"All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood" (Ecco), by Jennifer Senior   Parenting is a life-changing, meaning-infusing, deeply profound experience. It is also, day by...

"Archetype" (Dutton), by M.D. Waters   If you were born again but lacked the memories of this lifetime, would you be you? And if you weren't, who would you...

This book must have cost the author countless hours of tracking, sitting motionless, crawling perhaps, until he could capture the object of his desire through his lens.   For Mr Bonett, the...

Bedtime reading to and with children has long been one of the best ways to get children into the reading habit, as early as possible in life. It’s never too early to start enjoying a book...

It took a war to let America's female comic book artists break character.   A new exhibit at Pittsburgh's Toonseum is celebrating the history of female comic artists,...

It was Morrissey who once sang: "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now."   The former Smiths frontman may wish to replay the song. A savage review of his best-selling memoir won...