This article originally appeared in the May 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. I recently had the honor of visiting Jimmy ...

Caroline Gamon Supported by By Alida Becker Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years ... $29), he returns to this historical material, adding imaginative twists to the original ...

It’s an expansive, eloquent book that gives voice to those history has long ignored. Avid Reader Press Born in Boston in 1816, Charlotte Cushman lived a gloriously unconventional life.

These books are perfect for the spooky season ... The sinister aspect of history at the heart of Biyi Bándélé’s YORÙBÁ BOY RUNNING (Harper, 288 pp., $26.99) is the slave trade, whose ...

One of the most famous romance publishers of all time, Mills & Boon, is showing no signs of slowing down. The books – sometimes ... it’s vampire romance or historical romance or contemporary ...

and even casually chucking the whole history book out of the window if it gets in the way of a good story. Historical retellings that have played fast and loose with history are nothing new (see ...

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Mills & Boon has a long history in Australia and has grown to ... in over 30 different languages, with a book sold every two seconds, worldwide. Currently over 1,300 authors write for Mills ...

Then I’m joined by Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, for a wide-ranging conversation about the history of book bans in the United States, how a resurgent wave of book bans in many states ...

And the really great thing about historical fiction is no matter how many books have been written about any one event in history (like, let's be real, there are already a zillion and one books ...