Wally Lamb clearly drew on his experience conducting prison workshops while writing 'The River Is Waiting,' a novel about a ...

A couple of recommended fiction books this month are Sarah Moss’s Ripeness (Picador), an impressive story of love and ...

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

And yet, as Eric Marshall White persuasively argues in his admirable new biography of Gutenberg, such methods did not and ...

This month, pile your nightstand with a sizzling novel about power, lust, murder and tennis; a memoir from one of media's most powerful titans; a look inside an infamous art-world lair, and so much ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow returns with a definitive look at Mark Twain—and his life before he became Mark ...

Credit - T he best new books to read in May include historian and best-selling author Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain, ...

Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and ...

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of ...