Dwight Garner

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

“Book of Lives” offers two distinct versions of the esteemed novelist: “Peggy Nature” and “the brooder.”

The rock journalist turned writer turned filmmaker styles himself “The Uncool” in his new book.

The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures.

“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen.

“Shadow Ticket” follows a dancing private eye on the hunt for a missing cheese heiress. It gets even wackier from there.

The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.

“What We Can Know” follows a scholarly quest amid the ruins of civilization.

In “Will There Ever Be Another You,” Patricia Lockwood recounts the pandemic’s devastating effects on her life.

In “Boy From the North Country,” a writer returns home to be with his dying mother and learns some shocking secrets.