Bedside table: A born storyteller asks, when is the past truly the past?

Has the U.S. suffered a fall from grace, or is it just setting up a leap of faith?

A former Obama speech writer travels the world to uncover how we're seen, and whether it matters.

A hospital chaplain tends to the souls of patients in Ellen Cooney’s eloquent new novel

Told through a series of vignettes, 'One Night Two Souls Went Walking' beautifully rides the line between daily life and deep meaning.

Janet Malcolm, provocative author and journalist, dies at 86

The author of numerous influential books and magazine stories, the Prague native practiced a kind of post-modern style in which she often called attention to her own role in the narrative.

Bedside Table: Two excellent books for the farm girl in all of us

‘The Maine Farm Table Cookbook’ celebrates the state’s many food producers

Kate Shaffer's newest cookbook also serves as a guidebook.

An unvarnished account of her father’s decline from Lou Gehrig’s disease

'All the Colors Came Out' is unsparing about the burdens and rewards of taking care of an ill parent.

Under the shadow of World War II, an ordinary family’s extraordinary impact

Told through remarkable correspondences, 'The Weidners in Wartime' tracks one family's path to Resistance heroism.

The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment

The comedy that runs through Rivka Galchen's "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality.

Bedside Table: How to get through tough times? This book, set in World War II, has some answers