Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel. Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising ...

By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...

Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent.

March 11, 2025 • Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art. February 26, 2025 ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released on Reagan's inauguration the timing seemed too good to be true. Den of Spies ...

One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...

Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I ...

The physical and emotional changes that come with puberty can be challenging for tweens, but these books can help. From expert guides filled with biological facts to the funny Wimpy Kid installment in ...