This month, pile your nightstand with buzzy literary fiction, a memoir by Melinda French Gates, a posthumous release by Joan ...

The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of their prestigious literary award during their annual ceremony on March 20. Founded in 1974, the NBCC, made up of over 800 editors and critics ...

Check out: USA TODAY's weekly Best-selling Booklist Ever the optimist, her coping mechanisms were looking at the sky (a recurring theme in her art and music) and “imagining” her favorite foods ...

As I mentioned, you've written extensively about Anthony Bourdain, in your new book, you discuss the impact of his life on ...

Gage’s biography of J. Edgar Hoover is a page-turner I could barely put down. Hoover was a closeted obsessive, spending a career on an Ahab-like quest to uncover a nonexistent “deep state” of ...

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

‘A Writer Who Can Do Anything’: Liz Moore blazed, comet-like, onto small screens and best-seller lists. But her writing career has been a slow burn. Origins of the American Picture ...

Odom will return to his "Hamilton" role with a new cast of co-stars this fall. But after playing Aaron Burr more than 500 ...

Dennis McDougal, a Pasadena native, was a well-known journalist and author who devoted much of his career to covering Hollywood, crime and media. He penned 14 books, ranging from deep-dives into ...

New Yorker writer David Denby has come up with four names to essentially fashion a group biography around. He picked Mel ...

This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an absorbing account of an orphaned boy growing up among women during the Ogaden ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...