The author of two critically acclaimed novels, Jeffrey Eugenides is not afraid of taking chances with his fiction, or of getting it just right. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, is a tale of five teenaged sisters who one by one kill themselves,...

MIDDLESEX. By Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 529 pp. $27. In 1967 the world-renowned if somewhat Dickensianly named sexologist John Money was offered a case he couldn't refuse. A boy, not yet 18 months old, had lost his penis in a...

Byline: David Gates Jeffrey Eugenides must have waited years to exploit a certain sniffy and sinister passage from T. S. Eliot: "Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant/Unshaven, with a pocketful of currants... Asked me in demotic French/To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel..."...

The Real Estate today launches a new weekly feature called Shott on Location. Counter Espionage columnist Chris Shott will blog live about shops, stores, restaurants, bars, clubs and other retail locales around the city. "Do you have to pay for wireless?" asked a lady...

Oprah Winfrey got Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy to do the one thing he hates most: talk about his work."You probably shouldn't be talking about it, you probably should be doing it," the 73-year-old author told Winfrey in a rare TV interview, which aired Tuesday...