A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon's ...

Babitz is now a cultural heroine as well as a literary, same as Didion. What she stands for is pleasure, polymorphous and ...

Stephen King, the master of horror and suspense, has a secret: he loves contemporary fiction that strays from his signature shadowy realms. This article explores King's unexpected book recommendations ...

"I would not have finished it, except I needed to know what happened. And what happened was so much less than satisfying..." ...

After reading the Oct. 23 Record article about Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History, I knew that as a former Record editor, ...

Attica Locke’s new novel, “Guide Me Home,” is the final installment in her critically acclaimed Highway 59 trilogy of crime novels featuring Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger. As well as ...

Ah yes, the weepy. Every now and then, a motion picture tearjerker pops up in movie theaters, but the filmed entertainment ...

Attica Locke’s new novel, “Guide Me Home,” is the final installment in her critically acclaimed Highway 59 trilogy of crime novels featuring Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger. As well as discussing ...

And “The Goldfinch” ($9 million worldwide and also awful reviews), the only big-screen adaptation of author Donna Tartt’s ...

At her home in Nantucket, the bestselling author keeps her collection personal, including where she puts her books: “Nobody else has to understand it.” ...