If the phrase “copy-editing memoir” quickens your heart, then you’re in store for a treat: Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Norton), by Mary Norris of The New Yorker. One of the many ...

NEW YORK — Eager to try New York on for size, Mary Norris spent the summer after her junior year at Rutgers in a sublet on Ninth Street between Avenues B and C. “This was way back in the early 70s, ...

Cecelia Watson’s deceptively playful-looking book is a scholarly treatise on a sophisticated device that has contributed eloquence and mystery to Western civilization. “The Favourite” has kinkier sex ...

The new book “Because Internet” examines how the Web has changed the way we write. Lionel Shriver and Jacob Rees-Mogg, meanwhile, want to turn back the linguistic clock.