In October of 1994, I interviewed my first author on the radio. In July of 2004, I wrote my first column on books for this newspaper. Those two events were not coincidences, if I had not already spent ...

It's a famous piece of writing advice: The secret to writing well is reading well. So if the best writers are also the best readers, who better to take book recommendations from? Time recently ...

Then: His favorite writer. Now: “So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.” His own new novel is “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by “I’m at ...