Following the death of legendary Random House editor Jason Epstein in February, many tributes pointed to his various publishing innovations, including his final creation, On Demand Books, maker of the ...

In a new memoir, Geoff Dyer reflects how seemingly trivial moments and objects of childhood end up playing an outsize role in our lives. By Joanna Biggs Joanna Biggs is the deputy editor of The Yale ...

Peyton Vaughn, 7, selects a book July 17 from the vending machine at the Rancho Cordova Youth Center, while three other students wait for their turn. Hannah Poukish hpoukish@sacbee.com The main ...

“Paul Kingsnorth tends to think in the most sweeping terms imaginable,” said Alexander Nazaryan in The New York Times. In Against the Machine, his recent best seller, the British novelist, poet, and ...