Franklin and Lucy is an intimate look into the personal life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the women close to him. Joseph Persico ...

Only Henry James can take a beguiling idea like quasi-incestuous adultery, add an Italian prince, a billionaire art collector, and exotic...

. Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black , a collection of short stories by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer , has its hits a...

Penelope Fitzgerald (Dec. 17, 1916 to Apr. 28, 2000) was a prize-winning British poet, essayist, and biographer. She is an inspiration be...

Among my many other reading goals, I am trying to read at least one book by every winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature . So far, I have...