“Deliberate Cruelty,” by Roseanne Montillo, is the captivating true story about two well-known people involved in three murders. One was...

Wisconsin senator William Proxmire, the champion of Earth Day, was also known for his “Golden Fleece Awards,” citations of “wasteful”...

In 1932, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and his author wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was...

“Afterlives” is a historical novel about German East Africa and the last days of the “scramble for Africa.” The story explores the...

Following the publication of her first collection of poems, “What Kind of Woman,” Kate Baer has become a beloved poet whose writing...

Ernest Hemingway had Nick Adams. Wendell Berry has Andy Catlett. Both are fictional characters with autobiographical roots in their...

Former “Harvard Lampoon” president and current “New Yorker” contributor Andy Borowitz has written a jibe-filled, but well-documented,...

“Anywhere You Run,” by Wanda M. Morris, is a suspenseful, historical fiction novel about two Black sisters trying to escape Jackson,...

Wildlife photographer Peter Beard died in Montauk, New York, in March, the same month the 2020 pandemic was announced. Ironically, Beard,...

Eighty-nine-year-old American writer Cormac McCarthy is the author of 12 novels as well as screenplays, short stories, and plays. His...

“Babel” by R.F. Kuang is an immersive and ambitious alternate-history fantasy of the Victorian era British Empire that should be...

St. Louis congresswoman Cori Bush believes she was sent to Washington in 2020 to disrupt a political order that had long ago stopped...

John Irving is one of America’s most prolific late 20th and early 21st century authors. His latest novel, “The Last Chairlift,” like many...

The quirky novel, “The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream, by Jeane Suzy, is about sisters growing up together and growing apart....

In the opening pages of “The Furrows,” Cee Williams, age 12, is watching her 7-year-old brother Wayne, as she usually does, while her...

David Maraniss’ definitive biography of Jim Thorpe chronicles the life of this superstar of the Sac and Fox Nation from his birth in...

Malinda Lo’s 2021 novel “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” swept the nation as one of the most beloved and important books of the year,...

“The First to Die at the End,” by Adam Silvera, is an exciting rollercoaster of a novel—I loved it. The characters are entertaining and...

In Sara Ackerman’s book, ‘The Codebreaker’s Secret,” Isabel Cooper is a college graduate working in Hawaii, the only female codebreaker...

William Faulkner is reported to have once said about Ernest Hemingway, "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to...