Carmen Balcells, who for half a century represented many top names in Spanish and Latin American literature, is forming a joint venture with Andrew Wylie.
Diana Gabaldon’s “Written in My Own Heart’s Blood” — the eighth entry in her Outlander series of time-traveling romances — is No. 1 on the hardcover fiction list, with a new TV show based on the series coming in August.
For the first time, researchers have used fMRI scanners to track the brain activity of writers as they created fiction. The results have drawn strong reactions from other scientists.
Cast in its day as “the war to end all wars,” World War I has instead become the war to which all subsequent wars and much else in modern life seem to refer, consciously or not.
