Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and ...

As an editor and book critic, Malcolm Cowley backed innovative 20th-century writers. His greatest achievement may have been ...

A Guardian and a Thief begins promisingly, offering nuanced portraits of its main characters. On the first page, the reader ...

Helen Garner found her grandson’s Australian football games to be a source of joy and energy, even as a spectator.

At 35, Kiran Desai became the youngest female author to be awarded the Booker prize when her second novel, The Inheritance of ...

Cowley became convinced that Faulkner (whom he met only later) was misunderstood and undervalued. The separate books he had ...

Salman Rushdie lived for decades under a death sentence and survived a knife attack three years ago. His latest book The ...

Norton Juster, the children's author whose 1961 book "The Phantom Tollbooth" is considered a classic, has died at age 91.

Granite Staters might recognize her voice just as readily as her name. For 25 years, Laura Knoy was a regular on New Hampshire’s airwaves, hosting “The Exchange,” a live daily news and public affairs ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to the Scottish writer William Boyd about his latest book, "The Predicament" – a spy thriller set during the height of the Cold War.