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In his new novel, The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III imagines the stripper who danced for the terrorists before Sept. 11. The author is best known for House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award finalist in 1999.

Best known for his novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer explores the hidden secrets of one suburban, 1950s couple in his new book, The Story of a Marriage.

Set in Poland on the brink of World War II, The Spies of Warsaw follows a French military attache attempting to uncover Nazi secrets. The book is Alan Furst's 10th historical spy novel.

In A Voyage Long and Strange, journalist Tony Horwitz details his three-year journey from Plymouth Rock to the Dominican Republic to find out more about the earliest explorations of the Americas.

The world's most-read book has been reproduced in a style known as Japanese manga, associated with anime. Author and illustrator Ajinbayo "Siku" Akinsuku discusses his attempt to keep the religious message of the Bible relevant for the younger generations.

The Georgetown University professor — author of an acclaimed biography of Tupac Shakur — says hip-hop has its excesses, but at its best it's a high art, a politically acute brand of pavement poetry.

When a rock quintet of farm animals hits the highway in a van, mayhem and music ensue. In his ninth vividly illustrated children's book, Jarrett J. Krosoczka brings to life the adventures of a barnyard band.

Some doctors are "better" than others. The author and surgeon explores the meaning of excellence in medicine — and life. On the page and off, Gawande is obsessed with the fragile balance between doing harm and doing good.

A new study suggests that there are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. And that's a conservative estimate.

In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American writer and the grandson of an ayatollah, travels behind "Persian walls" to provide a revealing look at modern Iran.