Andre Dubus III’s first novel in a decade, “Gone So Long,” is a story filled with thrilling tension and heartrending empathy. It tells about a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades – exploring how the wounds of the past afflict the people […]

Andre Dubus III’s first novel in a decade, “Gone So Long,” is a story filled with thrilling tension and heartrending empathy. It tells about a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades – exploring how the wounds of the past afflict the people […]

David Baldacci is one of the greatest thriller writers of the last two decades.He creates heroes with severe flaws, powerful people of influence who are easily corruptible, or in the case of his most recent novel, “Long Road to Mercy,” an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States.

Political, social and natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? And how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all? […]

National Book Award finalist Elliot Ackerman’s new novel, “Waiting for Eden,” tells the devastating story of a husband and wife who cannot communicate with one another, two friends who face the sheer unknowability of the divide between life and death, and is a portrayal of a mind that no longer has mastery over the body […]

Sigrid Nunez’s novel, “The Friend,” is a moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. The book won this year’s National Book Award for fiction. Nunez’s previous novels include “Salvation City,” “The Last of Her Kind” and “A Feather on the Breath of God.” Originally aired as The Book Show #1548.

A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Lepore, author of “These Truths: A History of the United States,” looks to explore how we now understand the role of women and people of color in our political heritage, and how […]

Broadway actor, musician and writer Andy Mientus has just written his debut novel, “The Backstagers and the Ghost Light,” the first book in a middle-grade series based on the award winning graphic novels. Featuring and inclusive cast of characters, the series follows a band of theater misfits as they go on a paranormal, action-packed adventure.

It was 1987 when the “Doonesbury” comic strip first imagined a Donald Trump presidential run. Since then, Trump has been a recurring character in cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic. His new book, “#SAD! Doonesbury in the Time of Trump,” tracks the victory, the transition and POTUS’s first 500 days. This episode was recorded as […]

Walter Mosley’s latest novel is the result of nearly 20-years of incubation, it is a dazzling and convention-defying novel of ideas about the sexual and intellectual coming-of-age of an unusual man who goes by the name Woman. The new book is “John Woman.” This is an Off the Shelf edition of The Book Show, recorded […]