In Australian author Douglass's stirring final book in her Crucible trilogy (after 2005's The Wounded Hawk), ex-priest Thomas Neville confronts such thorny issues as man's free will, the morality of ...

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NORTH ADAMS — It was the dying breath of a “particular kind of capitalism,” the author said — automobile mogul Henry Ford’s ill-fated attempts to outstrip unionization and to strike gold in the Pará ...

“I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife. Credit...Rebecca Clarke ...

John Sayles is on a roll with this new historical novel, his third in as many years following the enjoyable and enlightening To Save the Man and Jamie MacGillivray. It’s an impressive work rate when ...