Being a source of light in the darkness of someone's life is the main focus of a new book by local author Stevey Stewart.

In honor of Halloween and all things spooky, we've gathered a collection of very real and very scary ghost stories for your ...

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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (Random ... The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World: $30) The National Book Award ...

Her newest novel takes us back into the world of Strout’s beloved characters, full of complexities and quirks.

Who knows Halloween reads better than horror authors? Ten writers pick their scariest books ever, including tomes by Stephen ...

In her tenth novel, Elizabeth Strout brings together familiar characters, Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess from her previous books and follows their lives in Crosby, a small town in ...

The book brings together beloved characters from ... "You told Bob that you had a story to tell me?" Lucy asked. She slipped ...

A grown woman is like a coyote—she can get by on very little,” Ottessa Moshfegh wrote in her first novel, Eileen. “Men are ...

Tillie Olsen, the San Franciscan whose short story "Tell Me a Riddle" won the 1961 O ... The last short story and the one that bears the title of the book is by far the best in the collection.

Have Stephen and Lucy changed by the end of Season 2 of "Tell Me Lies"? Perhaps — they've gotten worse. The second season of ...

As Tell Me Lies continues to put Wrigley through the wringer, Spencer House's attempts to portray his character with care and ...