BOOK REVIEW When Phyllis Theroux started keeping a daily journal, she was a young mother in a troubled marriage. “There were times, in the beginning,...

BOOK REVIEW Editor’s note: This is the complete review of “The Journal Keeper: A Memoir.“ A portion of the text was missing in today’s...

FICTION You didn’t think the grave could possibly silence one of the most famous chroniclers of the rich and famous, did you? Dominick Dunne, the...

NEW YORK—Fox News host Sean Hannity has a new book. HarperCollins says it it will issue Hannity’s “Conservative Victory” on March...

NONFICTION On April 12, 1945, the event that many had dreaded—and a few had yearned for—happened: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died. The...

NONFICTION More than a decade passed since the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton. Neither terrorism attacks, recessions nor the passage of...

TODAY “Richmond Rocks!“ by Kate Hall—Book signing at 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble-Short Pump, 11640 W. Broad St. 360-0103. “Surviving...

NONFICTION Memoirs promising to tell all and spare nothing, however sordid, have become as formulaic as any other genre. But Stephanie Saldana’s...

FICTION Jo NesbU’s new book, “The Devil’s Star,“ may be the best crime novel that opens with a three-page history of a leaky house’s...

NEW YORK—Anne Rice is giving the video book a try. The author of “Interview With a Vampire,“ “The Vampire Lestat” and many...

NEW YORK—Best-selling author John Grisham is finally ready to go digital. More than a year after reports emerged he would make his books available...

Even mediocre thrillers provide entertainment and escapism. But the best come with a healthy dose of authenticity that draws readers quickly and inexorably...

For writers, the trouble with writing a great—or, shoot, even a good or slightly better-than-average first novel—is something at once both...

This unauthorized biography recaps what most fans already know about Susan Boyle, the shy, 48-year-old Scottish singer who became an Internet sensation...

NONFICTION One of the unforeseen consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the number of wounded women being admitted to veterans hospitals....

With the official beginning of spring only a few days away, it’s time to start thinking about getting out of the house and into the great outdoors....

FICTION As John Banville’s new novel, “The Infinities,“ opens, Adam Godley and his beautiful actress wife have returned to his childhood...

BOOK REVIEW Forget Savannah—it has nothing on Richmond. In 1994, John Berendt put a new spin on old Georgia eccentrics and Southern Gothic misdeeds...

Meet the latest Abraham Lincoln biographer: Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News host and best-selling author is working on “Killing Lincoln,“...

FICTION The word postmistress, like aviatrix or executrix, has passed out of common usage as our sensibilities to gender bias have grown more refined....

NONFICTION Only those with ice in their hearts admit to disliking dogs. Even cat people are cautious in claiming their particular allegiance. So “It’s...

NONFICTION Summarizing the central argument of a book as rich and allusive as David Shields’s “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto” is a dangerous...

FICTION More than a decade ago, Patrick McKenna ratted out a violent gang of Florida drug dealers and disappeared into the federal witness protection program....

TUESDAY “Scientific Jefferson: Revealed” by Martin Clagett—Book talk and signing at noon at Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St. 692-3592....

Junior League of Richmond’s 65th annual Book & Author Dinner

NEW YORK—A longtime journalist’s “inside account” of Tiger Woods is being published in June. Atria Books says Robert Lusetich’s...

For many years, World War II and the Cold War inspired riveting military fiction. Such stories remain popular—and they’re still being written—but...