Oprah Winfrey has propelled many books onto the best-seller list, but her collection “What I Know for Sure” — No. 6 on the advice and how-to list — is the first best seller that is all her own.
The Godlight Theater Company is adapting James Dickey’s novel “Deliverance,” presenting it on a 12-by-12-foot stage and scrupulously hewing to the book, not the movie.
Edward E. Baptist’s “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” makes the argument that slavery was central to much of this country’s economic development.
As revealed in a new memoir, “Not My Father’s Son,” Mr. Cumming lived for years under the long shadow of his father — or, at least, the man he thought was his father.
