In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure ...

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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this ...

Without a blush, Publisher Bennett Cerf predicted last week that while Samuel Johnson was the great lexicog rapher of the 18th century and Noah Webster of the 19th, Random House will be the best of ...

It was “arguably the most successful rescue mission in American literary history,” writes Gerald Howard in “The Insider,” his lively biography of Cowley. It “would reverse Faulkner’s drift into ...