Crime fiction is having a moment right now: Your weekly guide to the best in books

After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams won my allegiance immediately and forever.

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

“There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Children’s books, however, are a late growth of literature.”

In her new book, Murderland, Caroline Fraser argues that the rise of these criminals has deep roots in the release of industrial waste.

The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke.

Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is full of unrestrained, devil-may-care attitude.

A year after the release of Michelle Obama’s acclaimed memoir, a celebration of books by black women