From Herman Melville’s 19th-century literary classic Moby Dick to memoirist Herman Raucher’s Academy Award-winning 1971 film ...

Ali Smith’s novels scramble plotlines, upend characters, and flout chronology—­while telling propulsively readable stories.

After fierce online bidding wars for vintage copies of “Entertaining,” a homemaking classic from 1982, the publisher decides to put it back in stores.