From broad biographies to niche studies of elements of his life

The poet laureate's new collection, Wade in the Water, deals with race, love and the Civil War

Maybe you don't want to read a novel about a school shooting; many people wouldn't. But if you are open, or even eager, to see how fiction can process one of the more painful elements...

When the novelist Luis Alberto Urrea was 14 or 15, he took a trip deep into Mexico. He was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and a white American mother before moving just across...

"California, we have a problem."

The name alone might make you shiver in your boots