Joseph Wambaugh, the master storyteller of police dramas, whose books, films and television tales powerfully caught the hard psychic realities of lonely street cops and flawed detectives trapped in a ...

Joseph Slate, Author, Alison Jay, Illustrator, illus. by Alison Jay. Putnam $15.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-24014-0 Everyone knows where the bright Christmas star leads, but did anyone ever wonder where it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 20—After nearly a decade away from St. Joseph, an author returned to the city that served as the setting of her book. Anna ...

Credit: Joseph Kuefler As the mom of a son of Caucasian and Hispanic ancestry, I am always looking for books that feature diversity. It is so important to me that I read children's books to him that ...

Before the release of Joseph Wambaugh’s first novel, “The New Centurions,” he received an unusual offer from the star of the strait-laced TV police drama “Dragnet” to look over the pages. Mr. Wambaugh ...

For author Frederick Joseph, the answer to how to respond to Target’s plan to scale back its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is simple: stop buying his books from the retailer. On Wednesday, ...

JOSEPH THE PROVIDER—Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter—Knopf ($3). Last week Thomas Mann published the final volume of his major work. Few novelists in the history of literature have planned ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken’ If John Newton’s ‘Amazing Grace’ speaks of the end of the road before conversion, his ‘Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken’ speaks of the road ...

Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7 More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: (L-R) Frederick Joseph and Nikkolas Smith attend the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever World ...