After he reads some of his more recent essays from the podium of what’s being touted as “the new Virginia G. Piper Theater” (what happened to the old one?), and before he sits down to sign copies of ...

My colleague, the book critic Dwight Garner, tells us about “Flesh” by David Szalay, this year’s Booker Prize winner. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. There are many books I love that ...