Webster County Library

Elizabeth L. Cline surveys the cultural, economic and environmental consequences of our never-ending hunt for low-priced clothing.

Did gifted generals really save the day for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan?

A new history of the tactics and technological innovations that secured an Allied victory in World War II.

In a collage-like work of autobiography and criticism, David Shields considers the reading and writing life.

Five decades after her suicide, two biographies re-examine Sylvia Plath’s life.

Lost fathers and redemptive con men have their day in Jess Walter’s first story collection.

Corporate interests keep us from facing problems, Al Gore writes.

There’s an intimate connection between the works of Shakespeare and Maurice Sendak.

In Jim Crace’s novel, the threat of change brings suspicion and unease to an insular agrarian community.

A grim, stupendous magic is at work in the stories in Karen Russell’s “Vampires in the Lemon Grove.”

Readers respond to a recent review of Lawrence Wright’s book about Scientology.

Readers respond to a recent review of Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday.”

As a child, the author of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” appreciated books in which “the weak were rarely bullied for long, and the bad guys didn’t get away.”

The novels “Sandalwood Death” and “Pow!,” by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, combine literary imagination with a peasant spirit.

In her poetry, Brenda Shaughnessy imagines a world without a child’s pain.

Joan Wickersham explores relationships in her collection.

Describing a life caught between Seattle and Qatar.

The final volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries.

Grave robbers, ghoulish experiments and the Romantic age: Roseanne Montillo traces the origins of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece.

An idiosyncratic English church is the starting point for Jenny Uglow’s biography of the Victorian architect and heiress Sarah Losh.