The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City Zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in Stephen Harrigan’s story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears. His new novel is “The Leopard is Loose.”
In his latest biography, “Mark Twain,” Ron Chernow brings to life the man known as the father of American literature, Mark Twain. Chernow peels...
This week on The Book Show, Author Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing – and have done – with the billions...
This week on The Book Show, Tana French discusses her book The Searcher. This is her first novel to feature an American protagonist and...
