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'"Station Eleven" author Emily St. John Mandel's new novel is a brilliant and generous time-traveling masterpiece.

Britney Spears confirmed on Instagram that she's writing a memoir, close on the heels of her sister Jamie Lynn Spears' controversial memoir.

Her biographies of the Jazz Age figure and of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay were best sellers.

In Judd Apatow's "Sicker in the Head," the filmmaker asks other creative types to delve into their process.

The author of "Station Eleven" returns with fantastical new novel "Sea of Tranquility," and more of this week's must-read new book releases.

Jennifer Egan's followup to her Pulitzer-winning 2010 novel "A Visit From the Goon Squad" may be the smartest book you read all year.

Satire may not win wars but it can boost morale.

She helped establish the study of postcolonial literature and made her own entry to the genre with the memoir "Meatless Days."

A renowned translator of French literature, he introduced many English-language readers to works by Baudelaire and Stendhal, as well as the philosophers and essayists Roland Barthes and Emil Cioran.

Tinsel Town has influenced books from "The Princess Bride" to "Moving Pictures" and "Only the Dead Know Burbank."