And Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992) was a truly formative childhood literary experience for me. In this spectacularly subversive collection, a princess is tricked into kissing a devious frog who’s no ...

Lepore’s book, published earlier this month by Liveright/Norton, is a history of the United States Constitution, which was ratified in 1788 and went into effect the following year. In a starred review ...

Robert Barnett, the Washington, D.C., lawyer who was famed for his literary dealmaking for clients including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, died at 79, the New York Times reports.

Patricia Cornwell stopped by Good Morning America to discuss her latest novel, Sharp Force.

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Tom Holland is set to star in a film adaptation of John Grisham’s The Partner, reports Deadline.

Named finalists in the poetry category were Gabrielle Calvocoressi for The New Economy, Cathy Linh Che for Becoming Ghost, Tiana Clark for Scorched Earth, Richard Siken for I Do Know Some Things, and ...

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The Lambda Literary Awards, or Lammys, were founded in 1989. Previous winners include Jennifer Finney Boylan for She’s Not There, Saeed Jones for How We Fight for Our Lives, and Catherine Lacey for ...

Heather Aimee O’Neill’s The Irish Goodbye is the latest pick for Jenna Bush Hager’s Today show book club. O’Neill’s debut novel, scheduled for publication next Tuesday b ...

Neurologist Masud Husain has won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, given annually to a book of popular science writing, for Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients ...