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

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

Consequently, the author went so far as to disown the project. Based on the best-selling novel by Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Here is the story most people know: In 1991, a then-28-year-old and relative nobody Donna Tartt sells what will soon become the critically-acclaimed cult classic, “The Secret History.” Shortly after ...

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 ...