Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Although Patterson has published over 200 books, this list ...

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of America’s greatest works of literature—and one of its most problematic. Contemporary writer Percival Everett provides a new path into the book’s ...

I don’t have to tell you 2024 was a chaotic year – we’re all feeling it in our bones as December winds down. Between covering protests, the election and the Olympics, I turned to reading as a refuge ...

It would be a bit of an understatement to say E L James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" had an effect on the publishing world. Looking back over the decade since its publication, the novel, which started out ...

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” By Alexandra Alter Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction on ...

Just days before James Dean’s first movie premiered, the actor reportedly paid off a disgruntled male lover who threatened to expose their relationship. The agreement, which remained a secret for ...

James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.