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In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks’ ‘immortal cells’ — cells taken from a tumor on her cervix and kept alive to multiply in laboratories around the world — and how Lacks’ children discovered...

After his daughter — a 38-year-old pediatrician with three children of her own — died of a rare heart defect, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, moved in with their son-in-law to help raise their grandchildren. His new book, Making Toast, is his account of the hurt — and...

When Emory University adjunct professor Sally Wolff-King was researching her latest book, she came across a plantation diary that bore a strong connection to William Faulkner’s novel Go Down, Moses. The names of the slaves in the journal were the same as those in Faulkner’s book....

Adam Haslett’s debut novel pits a retired history teacher against the young banker trying to build a garish house on her father’s land. Reviewer Heller McAlpin calls Haslett’s book “a literary go-kart.” » E-Mail This     » Add to...