Twenty-five years ago, Mike Mansfield lost track of his college pal Robert Gilmore. “Whenever I’d be in a bookstore, I’d check the science fiction-thriller sections to see if he’d been published,” ...

In his introduction, Joseph Epstein offers a broad definition of literary genius: “Timelessness, grandeur of vision, originality of outlook—all these in concert and worked at a high power comprise ...

Pity the writers of 19th-century Russia. Already hounded by critics and censors, they faced another dogged source of scrutiny: psychiatrists. This new audience of mind readers not only sought case ...

Netflix has officially greenlit production on Notes from the Last Row, a Korean psychological suspense series based on the acclaimed Spanish play El Chico de la última fila. The series will star Choi ...

Among members of my family, the word bath is pronounced “baff.” It’s not that we have some hereditary speech defect or obscure regional accent. It’s because at one point or another, we all read Donald ...

If there were, indeed, any "good times" in Orth Stein's tortured 39-year life, they must have been his childhood in Lafayette between 1862 and 1879, when he first took up newspaper work on the Courier ...

Michael Grandage’s “Genius” dramatizes a few chapters from the life and career of Maxwell Perkins — the editor who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe and helped shape ...