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His Holocaust novel “King of the Jews” was widely praised. He also wrote about his show-business family and taught writing at Boston University.

It’s October, which means it’s time for the master of horror to shine. Yet he’s become equally famous for several works of non-horror.

The novelist discusses his latest book, “The Bright Sword,” in which Arthur has died but Excalibur lives on with a band of misfit knights.

The actor and literacy advocate will host the ceremony after the National Book Foundation dropped its original host, Drew Barrymore.

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.”

Working in a Louisiana middle school has made Amanda Jones a culture warrior, a process she describes in “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.