These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.

Four Irish writers have been longlisted for this year's award, making up a third of the longlist.

These offenses include everything from historical forgeries to audacious heists to cold-blooded murder—all with a bookish twist.

The author of ‘East of Eden’ and ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was also a three-time Academy Award nominee and found an enemy in J. Edgar Hoover.

The House on Thursday passed a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill to renew funding for the agency for the next five years.

'The Canterbury Tales' author Geoffrey Chaucer's work spanned poetry and prose and ranged from the humorous to the scientific—but there's so much more to know about the "father of English poetry."

'Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Story With Mino the Magician' was originally part of a museum fundraiser.

James Baldwin's novel 'Giovanni’s Room' was rejected by editors and publishers before it was eventually released in 1956.

If you’ve been pronouncing Roald Dahl’s first name as “rolled,” you should read this.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has directed the withdrawal of frozen foods of an animal nature.

Cormac McCarthy, long considered one of America's greatest writers for his violent and bleak depictions of the United States and its borderlands in novels like "Blood Meridian," "The Road" and "All the Pretty Horses," died on Tuesday, according to his Penguin Random House publisher Alfred A. Knopf. He was 89.

By the age of 34, Lorraine Hansberry was already the author of two plays that had appeared on Broadway. She should have been on course for a long and successful career—but tragically, that wouldn't happen. Still, her legacy has endured.