In Desire Lines, a memoir-in-essays, novelist and journalist Kristen Millares Young blends personal experience with family ...

Each often believed in the other more than the friend believed in herself. They encouraged, sustained, pushed, pushed back, ...

The startling origins of fascism in the 19th-century American South emerge with compelling clarity in historian Joseph ...

We came, we read, we gushed. A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by Kevin M. Levin (University ...

An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.

Each chapter has a leading movie or man (as the author points out, “they were pretty much all dudes”). Singer provides a brief biography and the tumultuous career trajectories of our stars: Ben ...

A formidable figure requires — and finds here — a formidable biographer.

A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days. Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère; translated by John Lambert (Farrar, ...

A fact-packed, oddly flat portrayal of the singular diva.

We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are October’s winners. Mariko Hewer’s ...

Still, The Night That Finds Us All is an impressive read that’s both eerie and tense. Despite some choppiness here and there, ...

Formulaically, it’s a cozy whodunit, but it’s also a travel romance that features as its main characters a vampire who was ...