Sweden is pretty calm and affluent these days, not that you’d know it from the gritty crime fiction it continues to export over ten years after Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy created a global ...

The Book: The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca D. Costa, Vanguard Press, Hardcover, October 2010. “This book is the sound of the watchman’s rattle in the dead of night.

“Go Set a Watchman” does not present a different Atticus Finch from the one we all admired in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (“Don’t Mourn Atticus Finch,” by Peggy Noonan, Declarations, July 25). The ...

“The Night Watchman” by Louise Erdrich will be next year’s One Book One Northwestern selection, Northwestern announced Monday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is about a tribal leader that stands up ...

I first read “To Kill a Mockingbird” in third grade. Though I didn’t understand the full emotional content of the piece, I admired the skillful prose with witty humor and naturally flowing dialect. As ...