By A.O. Scott John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of the greatest pieces of music ever created.
By J. D. Biersdorfer Where’s Johnny? The Biography of a TV Host Whose Life Was a Closed Book. Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy.
But despite her ubiquity, few books have been written that explore the musician beyond her celebrity status. A handful of unofficial biographies have cobbled together headlines, trivia ...
Ursula Le Guin has written 22 books, including several classic novels ... another planet and eventually stage a revolution—but at great cost to their own nonviolent ways. It won the Hugo Award ...
A story of the three great losses in the writer's life: his country, his mother and his marriage. Constance Craig Smith reviews the new book from Natoora founder Franco Fubini. In Search of the ...
Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the ...
Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based ...