Legendary New York City newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin died on Sunday at the age of 88. This profile originally appeared in the November, 1987 issue of GQ and appears here with permission from the author. By Ambrose Clancy.

Jimmy Breslin was the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City. By Jason Silverstein, Larry McShane.

Shahidha Bari on lately reclaiming the existential legacy.

Following A Day Without a Woman, one of the world's favorite living authors is writing a book with his son about "[w]hat would happen if all the women abandoned the world," according to The Bookseller. Stephen King and Owen King are writing Sleeping Beauties together. Although Stephen King has previously written stories with his older son, Fireman author Joe Hill, the forthcoming supernatural suspense novel is his first collaboration with Owen King.

Above all else, Dad was a writer and a voracious reader – his copy of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall was annotated, read, reread and worn. By John Carter Cash.

DeKnight was Ebony’s first food editor and author of a best-selling African-American cookbook in the ‘40s. Her recipes presented a vision of black America that was often unseen in mainstream media. By Donna Battle Pierce.

Professor Abbadi was a historian of Greco-Roman antiquity and the visionary behind the revival of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt. By Jonathan Guyer.

Two biographies of Evelyn Waugh show him as a cruel father, but seek to reinstate him as the pre-eminent novelist of his era. Violet Hudson reviews.

On John Berger, a writer of our time. By Joshua Sperling.

Jonathan Coe’s “Number 11" offers a bleak portrait of what Britain has become. By Chris Lehmann.

As a cleaner, Michele Kirsch brings insights from her writing career to her current job – and reveals some home truths.

"He questioned greed, monuments, glib cruelty, and received wisdom. He felt that when we look at an artist’s work we are taking in how they themselves look at everything else, and that doing so 'increases our awareness of our own potentiality.'” By Ben Ratliff.

NYC investigative reporter wrote the book on Donald Trump, was a scourge to mayors and power brokers.

Democrats played into Trump’s hands, Lakoff says — and they won’t win until they learn how to frame the debate. By Paul Rosenberg.

Gay Talese, holding a gin martini in one hand, sat in a dark corner of the bistro, before an attractive blonde who stood waiting for him to say something… By Joshua David Stein.

It took sixty years for Antonio Di Benedetto’s novel “Zama,” recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as a classic, to be translated into English. By Benjamin Kunkel.

Catherine Brown reviews John Stubbs’ “Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel.”

John Berger

The tale of a hubristic Georgian book editor is an early example of trolling, and a lesson for us all. By Lynne Truss.

Since Paula Hawkins released her bestselling novel The Girl on the Train exactly two years ago, an overwhelming number of books have had “girl” in the title. But that’s not all: The Girl on the Train isn’t the only title that used the “girls on vehicles” trend. To celebrate the book’s anniversary, here are some other ways girls travel in book titles past and present.