Mitch Albom's new book exemplifies a typically American, trans-sectarian optimism.

Migration is a phenomenon with many faces.

John Thorndikes wrenching memoir chronicles the year he cared for his Alzheimer's-afflicted father.

Diane Ackerman has long been a prolific observer of the myriad wonders of nature.

With her novel 'Angel Time' Anne Rice has, perhaps unintentionally, written a roman clef.

Sections of John Irving's new novel are a triumph of storytelling, as if the author is shouting: Look, ma, no hands!