A new memoir by the historian Martha S. Jones combines a trenchant analysis of race and the historical record with a homage ...

He won a National Book Award for “Spartina,” beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of “Lonesome Dove,” Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of ...

Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, ...

It always interested Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane that while left-handed writers represent roughly 11 percent of the ...