A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood. By Charles Finch “Careless People,” a memoir by a former ...

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 ...

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 ...

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His book, a marvellous accounting that covers many moments of high drama, also usefully lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible, from executive orders and ...

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 ...

Council chiefs have admitted they will not temporarily re-install the signs marking Sir John Hawkins Square while it works out what it can name it - and how it should go about it after a change in ...

Koroi Hawkins is a Solomon Islands citizen with Fijian heritage. His great, great, great grandfather was one of the first English traders to travel to the Solomon Islands. He began his media career in ...

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 ...