A new book compares the authors and frenemies Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, but its fixation on their rivalry obscures the complicated truth.

Tommy Alexander cut the ribbon at the grand opening of a library he built in his mother's honor.Ada Mae Alexander was born in ...

Here are the six titles nominated for this year’s Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award, whose winner is set to be announced Tuesday in London.

She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.

The twentieth century saw a continued rise in the powers of the presidency. As historian Jeremi Suri noted in his book The ...

In his retirement he indulged his passion for history and politics by writing 5 books. “That drive to be involved will be really, really missed.” ...

I should point out that “Heidi” is a novel more or less in the realist tradition, though it reaches an enchanted climax that I’ll go ahead and spoil for you: Clara, the disabled cousin in Frankfurt, ...

The Palestine-Philistine connection is one of the major takeaways of “The Dragon’s Prophecy” by best-selling author Jonathan ...

One of the most frustrating parts about the convergence of critical and popular opinion caused by the social media age is ...

For half a century the journalist Jimmy Breslin chronicled events in New York City and elsewhere. Breslin was one of the hardest working newspaper columnists around. Some critics described his writing ...

Economic and social issues were more important for many voters. Interviews with Osceola County voters of Puerto Rican ...