Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like…

People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than youve been through, Mira Bartók is told at her mothers memorial service. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira…

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary…

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingways most enduring works. Since Hemingways personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes…

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingways most enduring works. Since Hemingways personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes…

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller…

A Globe and Mail Best BookIt would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and…

Waris Dirie leads a double life -- by day, she is an international supermodel and human rights ambassador for the United Nations; by night, she dreams of the simplicity of life in her native Somalia…

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the…

Here is the real inside story-not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon , but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism…