Prairie River Library District

Fiona Maazel’s antic new novel examines the contradictory but concurrent urges for solitude and intimacy.    

The troubles of Tom Drury’s characters seem to stretch back into the inscrutable past, and out into an equally murky future.    

Brian Stelter recounts the intrigue, infighting and personal crises in the morning TV shows’ ratings wars.    

An unhappy woman discovers a distressing secret in Patrick McGrath’s novel.    

Changes to the best-seller lists and this column, Open Book, are new to the Book Review.    

A reader responds to a recent essay by Andrea Wulf.    

A reader responds to a recent review of T. D. Allman’s “Finding Florida.”    

A reader responds to a recent essay by Sandra Beasley.    

A reader responds to a recent review of Randall B. Woods’s “Shadow Warrior.”    

Readers respond to a recent review of Willa Cather’s letters.    

In Helene Wecker’s novel, two folkloric creatures emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York.    

The author of “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” prefers books with action: “I don’t like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities.”