It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man of letters, in possession of a goodly number of books, must be in need of a ladder.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...

The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark.