To the world, his friends and in his work, David Gilkey was good-humored, loyal, brave, meticulous, at times a little manic, and deeply sensitive.The late…

The author profiles her family’s involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the movement that changed America.

Playboy.Glamour.O.Teen Vogue.All these magazines have something in common.They're no longer in print.While these — and many other — publications have…

Blues legend Robert Johnson has been mythologized as a backwoods loner, his talent the result of selling his soul to the devil. Wrong and wrong again,…

Each month, Beyond The Page: A WGBH Book Club features a notable author, who takes part in a live Q&A with a WGBH personality to discuss the intricacies of that month's novel. With each monthly book selection, we also ask the author for a list of reading recommendations. For its December edition, Beyond The Page selected Emily Gray Tedrowe's "The Talented Miss Farwell," an electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist.

John le Carré, the British spy novelist behind dozens of works including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, has died at…

The effort to support independent bookstores, locally, and across the country.

Everything I needed to know for Junior High School I learned from cartoons.Twice a day, before and after school, my local TV station delivered three…

The guidebook focuses on the overlooked stories of underrepresented communities.

Best-selling author and noted historian Anthony M. Sammarco has penned more than 70 books on the history and development of Boston, and lectures widely on the past of his native city.