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Human Touch » Mitch Albom Albom is writing a novel in installments. Plus, you can donate to his charity that will assist people in the Detroit area.

Writing in a Crisis | Talking Writing My C-outcry appears here.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, her debut novel of desolate southern lives, made McCullers an instant star – something she never fully recovered from

From AJ Lees’s extraordinary memoir Mentored By a Madman to Fiona Melrose’s Midwinter and Julie Myerson’s chiller The Stopped Heart, our critics recommend the reads that slipped under the radar

Better late than never!

Amazon.com: One Hundred Twenty-One Days (9781941920329): Audin, Michèle, Hills, Christiana: Books

Our correspondent returned to the Egyptian city this fall to find a place as full of despair as her mother’s of the 1960s was full of hope and anticipation.

Neuroscientists who insist technology is changing our brains may have it wrong. What if we are switching from books to digital entertainment because of a change in our need to communicate?

I’d hate to see Royal Aberdeen underwater. That's going to be my new slogan. Read the full text of the president-elect’s meeting with reporters, editors and opinion columnists from The Times.

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The highly personal archaeology of enslavement on a tobacco plantation

Hotel Amerika Introduces its new Interview Series Beginning with an interview by one of our editors, Liz Gower, with The Grammar of God: A Journey i...

German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war

After his wife’s stroke and his daughter’s death from measles, Roald Dahl applied his genius to medicine – making extraordinary breakthroughs. His doctor and friend recalls what he learned while treating the author in the last year of his life

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel...

"In sandals, in my grandmother's frock, in the noonday heat of an Italian June, I followed you."