Alexandra Alter

A full-length Barbie novel with mature concerns — even Barbie has job troubles, it seems — is allowing women to bring their girlhood passions into adulthood.

“Life of M,” Rachel Cusk’s new book, has a protagonist with an uncanny resemblance to Natalie Portman. But in an interview, Cusk says she never expected it would cause such a frenzy.

Jumping spiders are tiny, social, fuzzy creatures. In a sea of sameness online, they are now social media stars.

Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.

For the comedian Alison Leiby, talking about her choice to be child-free is more polarizing to audiences than anything else.

Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other?

Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing history.

A grass-roots campaign urged readers to buy copies of the Black feminist writer’s 2002 book “Communion” before Vice President JD Vance’s book of the same name hit shelves.

Kwame Alexander is starting up an imprint at Sourcebooks, an innovative publisher that has found success in giving authors larger roles in the publishing process.

The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine’s voice off on its own adventure.