Warring nations, divisive politics, a fear of foreigners and a distrust of what seems to be an unusual religion were challenges facing China during the 1700s as Elsa Hart shows in her compelling...

Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves escape to free...

Of stories to dine out on, David Cornwell has an abundance. Or should we say John le Carre has? Cornwell's pen name overshadows the title on the cover of this, his first memoir, "The Pigeon Tunnel."...

In 1962, when he turned 15, Steven Gaines slashed his wrists on a glass window in the back of his grandparents' undergarments store in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood. The act seemed to be the...

When the scarred remains of a 17-year-old girl are found in the waters of a secluded North Carolina mountain creek, law officers reopen a probe of her long-unexplained disappearance. It has been...

The "Little Egypt" region of southern Illinois is among the state's most diverse - with rich farmland near fallow soil, abandoned coal mines and beautiful parks, economically depressed rural areas...

Wavy's dad cooks meth in the trailers down the road from their house. Her mother stays home and alternates between swallowing pills, sleeping and threatening her daughter to keep her mouth closed,...

The "Little Egypt" region of southern Illinois is among the state's most diverse - with rich farmland near fallow soil, abandoned coal mines and beautiful parks, economically depressed rural areas...

The domestic thriller genre is based on a simple theme - sometimes the worst terror comes not from strangers but from those closest to us. That premise receives a gripping workout in B.A. Paris'...

Memoirs of a Rainy Day is a short story by Mary Anne Zammit on the theme of self harm and  has been published in the latest edition of Literature Today Volume 5  which is an international...