A CREELFUL OF FISHING STORIES — Henry van Dyke — Scribner ($2.50 ). Fish-stories from Plutarch to the present, edited by a lucky patriarch. THE NATION AT WAR — General Peyton C. March ...

Al Jolson turned personal family drama into the grist for his star turn in “The Jazz Singer.” Review by Gary Giddins Read the ...

5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks ...

The book highlights 10 outrageous wrongful convictions and issues within the American legal system. In the sixth book in the series, LAPD detective Renée Ballard reopens a 20-year-old cold case ...

Here are the 49 best new book releases this week: Sept 17-23, 2024. Forty nine??!! Don’t panic–and be glad you don’t work in a bookstore. It’s Fall and from now until Black Friday (the ...

But how far does that freedom extend? Banned Books Week poses that question as parents' rights groups, politicians, librarians and publishers are increasingly at odds over which books are suitable ...

Placed near the Light of the World Garden with 15 scenes devoted to Jesus Christ, new garden includes 130 bronze sculptures, ...

It's also the start of Banned Books Week. Introduced by the American Library Association in 1982 in response to an influx of efforts to censor books in libraries, bookstores and schools ...

It's Banned Books Week, an annual event from the American Library Association that brings attention to censorship in the United States. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most ...

BEVERIDGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA—Claude G. Bowers—H ought on Mifflin ($5). A dull biography of a second-rate great man. Literary Guild choice for September. SIR WALTER SCOTT—John Buchan ...