Not her politics, but the relentlessness and archness of her characters,” says the prizewinning playwright behind ...

The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America,” explores a fascinating cultural phenomenon, ...

With its big knife on the cover, it was an edition of David Morrell’s debut, “First Blood,” the 1972 novel about a troubled ...

Gerrymandering. Most Americans have come to be familiar with this phenomenon in which politicians rig electoral maps and ...

David Baldacci's Latest Legal Thriller 'Takes on Deep-Seated Racism' — and Took a Decade to Write The bestselling author's newest, 'Calamity of Souls' was partly inspired by Baldacci's own ...

C-SPAN is launching America's Book Club, a television series exploring the nation's past, present and future through major ...

Check out two new episodes of Charlie and Kate Gibson's "The Book Case" ABC podcast featuring bestselling author David Sedaris, airing on Jan. 5 and 12.

Larry David’s Rule Book for How (Not) to Live in Society He’s a wild, monomaniacal jerk. He’s also our greatest interpreter of American manners since Emily Post. Illustration by Giacomo ...

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Sometimes cruelly. Stated bluntly, The Book of Charlie is brutal reading at times. When Charlie was merely 8, his beloved father was quite literally crushed to death in an elevator.

David Brooks is a regular on the NewsHour every Friday night. But while you were watching him, David was watching all of us. Pulling from his observations and other works, his new book, "How to ...