A new film recalls how, 50 years ago, Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” set off furious debates and coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

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Amid entanglements between Russia and young Americans, a first novel explores the sense of betrayal in the loss of family and friends.

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Janet Frame was saved from undergoing a lobotomy when a book of her stories won a local literary prize.

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Elliott Holt discusses her novel “You Are One of Them”; Rick Atkinson discusses his “The Guns at Last Light”; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news.

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The poet Christian Wiman ruminates on his incurable illness and his return to Christian belief.

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Walter Mosley is never better than when he’s got a juicy cut of history to chew on — this time the late ’60s.

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Some Russians say literature had more political power when it was forbidden.

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In the eyes of Patrick White’s two refugee children, most Australians are horrible and very few are kind.

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Crime sellers in the spotlight and Dan Brown’s “Inferno” makes its debut on the hardcover fiction list at No. 1.

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The National Institute of Mental Health has distanced itself from the “D.S.M.,” the so-called bible of psychiatry, the fifth edition of which is published this week.

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