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Peter Braunstein, the writer accused of pretending to be a firefighter and sexually abusing a woman in Chelsea last Oct. 31, has been indicted on a robbery charge in Ohio, [...]

On a recent book tour, Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of 'Nickel and Dimed,' was nearly brought to tears when an information technology marketer told her of growing so desperate after […]

In a recent interview, the German author Gunter Grass, who was 6 years old when Hitler came to power, added a significant, and overwhelming, detail to the account of his […]

At least three portions in the book "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, " by Kaavya Viswanathan, bear striking similarities to writing in "Can You [...]

It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to […]

Long before the drinking, the parties, the gossip and the fall, in a city that no longer exists, a boy from the South with the outlandish name of Truman Streckfus […]

Extremely Obvious And Incredibly Tempting The headline, we mean. It's just asking for it, like naming your book 'Everything Is ----------.' To be honest, we haven't read JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER's […]

What should a rebel leader with a little extra time on his hands do to get attention? Subcommander Marcos, the elusive and charismatic leader of the Zapatista movement in southern […]

You Dare Mention Duality On the First Date? With publishing such a competitive racket, it was downright heartwarming to see the lineup of editors who turned out on Tuesday night […]

Spring Is Busting Out All Over 'I guess that's the right bridal wear, isn't it?' SALMAN RUSHDIE asked us at the PEN awards gala on Tuesday. The awards celebrate openness, […]

THE name Vanderbilt might win you a few extra 'yes sirs' on a visit to Newport, R.I., the occasional withering stare from the anti-establishment hoi polloi, or automatic membership in […]

Being married to a writer is hell. Other cliches: If you're a woman, being married to a writer is romantic; if you are a man married to a writer, it's […]

When readers ask me at festivals and seminars for qualities that go toward the making of a good biographer, I seldom omit recommending stubbornness. Though he would have stubbornly denied […]

HE was a spellbinding storyteller, a figure of mesmerizing charm. The South African-born writer Sir Laurens van der Post, who died in 1996 at 90, sold millions of copies of […]

Stranded in jittery Los Angeles last September, the British novelist Hari Kunzru was reminded all over again of how awkward it can be to look like one thing, sound like […]

'Power, Privilege and Justice,' a new weekly crime program on Court TV, embraces the two lessons of Dominick Dunne's bipolar career as vigilante and social gadfly: you can get away […]

SURE you know Spider-Man as the teenage superhero out of Queens with the ability to dive and swoop among New York City skyscrapers on a hand-thrown web and more angst […]

Behind the wooden gate, past the skittering dog, inside the rambling old house, plastered on the door of Nadine Gordimer's office is an African National Congress poster that proclaims, 'Freedom […]

LONG after he blew the whistle on more than a dozen Wall Street securities firms that he said were charging artificially high prices for Treasury bonds, Michael R. Lissack, 43, […]

AS an exchange student in England, Bernhard Schlink remembers sitting with his host family at dinner, all watching television, and feeling very, very German. 'Television was to a great extent […]

WHEN Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters made their storied journey across America in 1964, they included a pilgrimage to Millbrook, N.Y., the Hudson Valley town where Timothy Leary had […]

ILL-LIGHTED corridors and hidden passages, the sorts of places that tend to slide through the cracks of urban life, are a magnet to Alan Furst. The author of spy thrillers […]

It's hard to know what to say about the city, New York, at a moment like this, other than no matter the catastrophe, you can still wander out from the […]

Somewhere due south of the George Washington Bridge bobs a buoy in the mighty waters of the Hudson River, its exact location and purpose as mysterious as any legend of […]

For more than 30 years, Hugh Nissenson has been laboring in solitude in the study of his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Sorrow has been his constant […]

I WONDERED who was scratching away back there.' That's how the dancer Judith Jamison introduced herself to Suzan-Lori Parks at the intermission of the play 'Top Dog/Underdog' on Wednesday night. […]

TWO friends were scouting for an apartment on Wednesday night, and also indulging in some diet-breaking noshing to cushion the trauma of it all. Jennifer Belle, a novelist and recreational […]

The Jewish mystics believed that God, in order to create the world, had to make himself smaller. I consoled myself with this notion when my daughter was born and I […]

Aging, people often draw their lives up around them like blankets against the oncoming chill, a psychological equivalent of the theological bookkeeping supposedly done when the earthly package is delivered […]

CLYDE, my stylist, told me to spread my legs and look straight into the camera. I tried, but the photographer still seemed frustrated. 'Wider!' Clyde instructed, then placed his hands […]

Carlos Fuentes says he's not an extremely religious man. But he says he believes that his words have power. Like many writers, Mr. Fuentes, 73, has used the agony of […]

GEOFFREY C. WARD was struck with polio when he was 10 years old. Living in India, where his father worked for the Ford Foundation, he spent hour after hour in […]

The other night I saw a television program about Asperger's syndrome, a disorder characterized by, among other things, the inability to read human emotions and a compensatory passion for objects […]

The author of 'Lolita,' 'Pale Fire,' 'Pnin' and 'Speak, Memory,' Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. What is less well known is that […]