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His term in solitary was perhaps the longest in American history. He described how he kept his sanity, and dignity, in an acclaimed memoir.
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Faleeha Hassan, author of "War and Me," recommends writers brave enough to confront the realities of violent conflict...
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His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.
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Sempé co-created much-loved French children’s books that have sold more than 15m copies worldwide...
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The award-winning Zambia-born writer on her reading habits, being emboldened by Toni Morrison, and her belief that books aren’t about self-improvement, but engagement
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A love-poem to those folds in spacetime that take us back to “when Sappho was a living girl.”...
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In my four decades as a journalist, if you don’t count facts I’ve gotten wrong and scrambled to correct, I haven’t written a lick of fiction. After all, fabrication is a cardinal sin.Nor did I fee…...
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Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser’s new book recounts turmoil caused by Fox News’s decision to call state for Biden in 2020...
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The author on Ballet Shoes, Annie Ernaux’s lyrical precision, and understanding the world through Henry James...
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In “Boys and Oil,” Taylor Brorby recalls the hazards of both the landscape and the culture of his home state.
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More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”
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The scale of the west’s exploitation of Africa and Africans in the pursuit of economic power is laid bare in this painful, passionate retelling of Eurocentric history
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Three junior doctors share the terror and black humour of night duty in the practising oncologist’s poignant novel...
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Another day, another example of grown adults rallying to ban books that could be educational, affirming, and in some cases life-saving for their kids. This one is in west Michigan, where residents …...
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Book jackets have been enticing potential readers for nearly 200 years with copy that amuses and intrigues.Here, a veteran blurb writer reveals their secrets...
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Erica Plouffe Lazure, author of "Proof of Me," pairs books with short fiction...
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The crime writer on enjoying James Joyce, rereading Charlotte Brontë; and diving into Wide Sargasso Sea
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His mysteries featured extravagant characters like Stone Barrington, a libidinous New York lawyer who, like Mr. Woods, hung out at Elaine’s.
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Bailey’s book on Philip Roth was pulled after former students said he abused them...
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A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from the author of Life Studies...
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The Australian writer and translator traces her ancestral footsteps across Europe and reflects on how we come to understand the past...
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When did wealth become the defining element of American success?This Booker-longlisted novel is a multilayered interrogation of ‘the fiction of money’...
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Her story collection “The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing,” her first book, has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold more than 1.5 million copies.
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