Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking ...

I don’t know of whom I’m more jealous, Lorne Michaels or Susan Morrison. The latter’s “Lorne” is one of the best biographies I’ve ever read. It’s as though she videotaped his life and the lives of ...

IT was the moment Lindsey Burrow knew that her rugby hero husband had succumbed to the disease that left him a prisoner in ...

Sun City' offers evidence that widespread isolation began long before Americans became absorbed in their phones.

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

Chantal Akerman’s rarely screened, dance-like drama of lovers’ encounters, separations, and reunions is newly available to ...

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.