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Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.

With its bracing studies of fiction’s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

Our columnist on new horror fiction, including the latest from Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due.

Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh’s nuanced take on the Netflix show’s villain has rankled Steinbeck purists by making her a human being.

Thanks to begrudging cooperation from the comedian and writer, a new biography is suitably kvetchy, if a little too long and a little too nice.

David McCloskey, a C.I.A. analyst turned spy novelist, has just released his fifth book, “London Station.”

Each October, the international publishing business descends on Frankfurt, Germany, for days of dealing and long nights of partying.

In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.

In “Every Story Is a Love Story,” a widower develops complicated feelings for the woman who upended his life.

In Kara LaReau’s “Licorice,” a shelter kitten adopted by a boy named Max is tormented by the lingering presence of her recently departed predecessor.