BOOKS

The best Vietnam War books from Tim O’Brien, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and others offer new insights and perspectives into the conflict that you probably never got from history class.

If it wasn’t for John Kennedy Toole’s mom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel would likely have been lost to time.

Author John Irving’s book about a boy with a “wrecked voice” who believes he’s an instrument of God is a staple on high school summer reading lists. Here are a few things you might not have known about it.

You’ll be glad these ladies aren’t your mother.

How Crichton turned ‘Jurassic Park’ from a manuscript everyone hated into a best-selling book that spawned a multi-billion dollar movie franchise. Plus: 10 key differences between the novel and the film.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel was a flop—until it was deployed overseas.

Wear your best gown to the Pride & Prejudice 20th Anniversary Ball in Pasadena.

For some people, video games were a pleasant way to pass the time in the 1990s. For others, they were a cultural crisis.

Sci-fi author Asimov feared embarrassment might come out of one project, so he decided to create an alter ego.

From what he originally called the fix-up sci-fi collection to the words he invented in its stories, here’s what you need to know about Asimov’s ‘I, Robot,’ which turns 75 this year.

This St. Patrick’s Day, revisit literary classics by Irish authors like James Joyce and Roddy Doyle, plus discover a few new writers along the way with this roundup.

The author, who was born 100 years ago on March 25, was really into mayonnaise—and peacocks.