I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

Tina Knowles, best known as Beyoncé and Solange’s mother, gets candid in her memoir, writing about being diagnosed with ...

In Binnie Kirshenbaum’s Counting Backwards, a wife must face a future without her beloved partner.

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...