In the News: Bad Sex, Junot in the Wilderness
Philip Roth, John Banville, and Amos Oz are among the nominees for this year's Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Colum McCann, T. J. Stiles, and Keith Waldrop win National Book Awards.
"The Imperial Cruise" argues that Theodore Roosevelt based his foreign policy on odd notions of race.
Junot Diaz failed for five years while writing "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
Big event books get their own movie-style trailers.
Karl Rove's memoir "Courage and Responsibility" will be published in March.
A Minnesota father spoke only Klingon to his child for three years.
Barack Obama is the subject of more than sixty children's books.
Ian Crouch is a contributing writer and a member of The New Yorker's editorial staff.
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