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 ...

Let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: Why should the revelations in “Go Set a Watchman”-- most notably, its portrait of Atticus Finch as a segregationist -- change the way we think about Harper ...

Two years after Harper Lee’s 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published to critical acclaim and commercial success, the tale of righteous lawyer Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter Scout ...

Harper Lee's unexpected new novel "Go Set A Watchman" has become the fastest selling book in the history of publisher HarperCollins, with more than 1.1 million copies sold in North America in the ...

Take a beloved American book, a reclusive author and a controversy over her second novel, and you've got the makings of a bestseller. "Go Set a Watchman," the second novel published by Harper Lee, is ...

Imagine a proto-version of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” featuring an adult, tidied-up, morally upstanding Huck returning to the scene of his youthful exploits, with only passing ...

On the porch of the Meadows, a small, canary-yellow nursing home along the Highway 21 bypass in Monroeville, Ala., a security guard called Officer Matthews keeps watch. Sometimes he sits in a wooden ...

The title of Harper Lee's soon-to-be published novel, "Go Set a Watchman," has caused bafflement among many fans of "To Kill a Mockingbird" who are excited about the pending publication of what will ...