On this week's Big Books and Bold Ideas, Barry joins Miller to talk about the entwined histories of America and Ireland and how he deftly uses comedy to combat a sense of fatalism. He also shares ...

“We started unearthing some really obscure, fascinating stuff … [stuff that] deserved to be showcased in a book. A big, loud, beautiful one. A book that properly celebrated these small pieces of ...

By J. D. Biersdorfer Where’s Johnny? The Biography of a TV Host Whose Life Was a Closed Book. Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy.

The Book Party—an initiative bringing authors and book bloggers together at informal parties across the UK—held its biggest event to date this week and expects to have more than quadrupled its ...

By Wilson Wong John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of the greatest pieces of music ever created.

Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the ...

Katharine Spurrier dives into the stunning selection of photographs by Carlos Muñoz-Yagüe in this new book which takes us behind the scenes of iconic designer, Yves Saint Laurent. Alexander ...

Both programmes have gone well over schedule, and cost more than $20bn each, though, thanks to a mixture of politics (big space programmes ... In “Reentry”, his recent book about SpaceX ...

It’s a compelling but relentlessly depressing read. The book, transcribed from tapes of Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s only child frankly discussing her life, is written in vignettes that ...

In this age of modern domestication, why are the largest dog breeds up to 40 times ... Sadly, Kevin died less than two weeks after the Guinness Book of World Records crowned him the world ...

The Irish writer’s latest book, which was published on Sept. 24 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is undoubtedly one of the biggest new releases of the year so far. Readers, for one, are enamored ...

She joined The Bookmart Big Bowtie Book Club in its infancy and is today a “facilitator” of the group, alongside Jamie McCrae. Both have always been avid readers.