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When Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King embarked on Faithful, their windy chronicle of the Boston Red Sox's 2004 season, they took an...

David Maine revisits the story of Cain and Abel in his follow-up to The Preservationist.

The shocks of 9/11 echo throughout the latest from the author of Underworld.

A.J. Benza's tagline as the host of E! Mysteries & Scandals provides the title of his memoir Fame: Ain't It A Bitch, which...

For many people, the '60s marked a turbulent era in which an impassioned youth movement boldly addressed the evils of warfare, discrimination, and...

Michelle Lee's Fashion Victim explores America's contradictory, paradoxical relationship with fashion by investigating both its seductive...

It's hard to pick the most stomach-turning of the incriminating facts spilling from the pages of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, a...

The rigid and often merciless high-school caste system can be hard on adolescents: In many high schools, physical abuse, sexual harassment, and...

While still in his early teens, future National Lampoon and Spy editor Tony Hendra was caught in a compromising position with his...

Terry Pratchett is a member of a very small, select community of authors. Not the science fiction/fantasy community, which is full to bursting...