The other Peruvian” (alongside Mario Vargas Llosa), he exposed the heedlessness of the upper crust, which he knew well, and ...

Consisting of 20 scholarly but accessible essays, the book explores its subject through the prism of history, design, sociology, literature, and psychology ...

By Nehru OdehProf. John Pepper Clark-Bekeredemo was a writer who extended the frontiers of African literature. He was not just an accomplished poet and playwright known for the lyricism of his poetry ...

Mohammed Hanif's new novel 'Rebel English Academy' is reviewed as a warning about Pakistan's unbroken cycles of power and resistance, adding to his acclaimed literary body of work.

The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and ...

The party’s inability to address the Israel-Palestine conflict without devolving into either antisemitism or Islamophobia ...

Ursula Nordstrom, the trailblazing Harper & Row editor who helped shape some of the most iconic and beloved children’s books of the 20th century, takes the spotlight herself in a new book for young ...

Joanne Paul wrote her powerful and considerable biography of Thomas More because she finds More’s life relevant to today’s world. But the book also addresses another question: Was More a saintly ...

Anna Green never imagined that her love for video games would lead to a trip to San Francisco to present her work to one of ...

Spying was George Downing’s true calling. He especially loved word-substitution ciphers—and turning on allies when it suited him.

Social scientist and author of a recent study on Estonians' reading habits, Marju Lauristin, said that while people do read ...

Things are omitted, elided, misunderstood or simply unavailable to the author. Lies are told. Biography traffics in ...