‘Here Comes Trouble’ is Michael Moore’s most heartfelt and engaging work to date.

Jeffrey Eugenides wants you to know that he really was working in the nine years between the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <span class="italic">Middlesex</span> in 2002 and his new book, <span class="italic">The Marriage Plot.</span>

Authors of ‘Great House’ and ‘Go the F**k to Sleep’ enliven crowd.

As it heads into the big street fair weekend of all things literary, Miami Book Fair International has a message for parents: Don’t go the f**k to sleep before you have some fun yourself.

Andrew Carmellini, the sizzling New York chef who began making his name as he climbed through the ranks at Le Cirque and Café Boulud, has just opened a South Beach outpost of his celebrated, American-loving The Dutch.

Linda Gassenheimer, The Miami Herald’s Dinner in Minutes columnist, is featured at this year’s Miami Book Fair International with her latest cookbook, <span class="italic">Fast and Flavorful: Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table</span> (American Diabetes Association, $18.95).

John Sayles, Eric Robert Greitens examine war through the lenses of personal experience and history.

The singer discussed his new memoir, ‘My Song,’ and a pleased crowd sang his signature ‘Day-O.’

A fond history of Burdines department stores is chronicled in a newly published book on sale at Miami Book Fair International.

Humorist Calvin Trillin and Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health reflect a diversity of ideas — and of reading material — at their presentations Monday.

Performers-turned-authors add grace notes to Miami Book Fair International

Eleanor Brown finds

An author has to be bold to write a book from the perspective of God. Even from theoretical physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, who first achieved literary success with 1993’s novel <span class="italic">Einstein’s Dreams, </span>it’s still a plucky gamble. In his new novel, Lightman again explores the creative scientific mind, here via the grandest of narratives — the creation of our universe from spur of the moment start to bittersweet end. It’s a literary experiment as heavy and airy as the Void in which the narrator Mr. g and his disapproving Aunt Penelope and steady Uncle Deva sleep and stroll.

Twenty years later, Barry Unsworth’s follow-up to ‘Sacred Hunger’ explores morality and history.

Volkswagen’s Beetle is an icon of two very different utopias.

Compared with James Wolcott, most literary journalists write like Amish farmers, their sentences plain as bib overalls. Not so this longtime columnist for Vanity Fair. Wolcott’s prose is high-maintenance, bangled with astonishing similes and metaphors, oiled to a high gloss. This is language on parade, as restless as the hopped-up patter of a carnival pitchman, as zingy as H.L. Mencken mocking a revivalist tent show. Admittedly, some slower readers might be overwhelmed by all the action on the page, and yearn for the more sedate pace and gentler irony of what Wolcott calls “the E.B. White elf academy.” But if you can surrender to the rush of this swooping carnival ride of a book, you’ll have a wonderful time with <span class="italic">Lucking Out</span>. Memoirs don’t come more entertaining than this.

“I’m reading <span class="italic">Mile Marker Zero</span> by William McKeen, which chronicles the Paris-like confluence of writers and artists in Key West in the 1970s. Makes you immediately want to buy a plane ticket south — and a time-machine.”

At this point in Tim Dorsey’s comic series about a serial killer who wreaks havoc on those who don’t respect Florida or its history, the Tampa author could easily give up any pretense of a plot.

Are we in need of a new <span class="italic">Jane Eyre</span>? Charlotte Bronte’s classic about a resourceful orphan — often called the first feminist novel — still holds up just fine, thank you. It benefits from a timeless story, unforgettable characters, thwarted romance, desolate settings, shocking tragedy and a mad wife in the attic. Who doesn’t love a mad wife in the attic? A recent film version featured rising ultra-hot stars Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester. No further proof is required of the book’s appeal.

Jan. 25 marked the one-year anniversary of Egypt’s “Revolution Against Torture, Poverty, Corruption and Unemployment,” so named by Wael Ghonim, the creator of a Facebook page that played a leading role in organizing the movement that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak and dissolved his ruling National Democratic Party.

An unearthed secret forces a family to confront their past.