Politicians can learn a great deal from animals. Just ask me, Sneaky Pie, a cat, who is running for president. Having canvassed other cats, dogs, horses, domestic animals and some wild ones, she offers this advice.

Popular book-rating website Goodreads has created an infographic about their users' preferences related to political parties. The site asked their rea...

Some have argued that America is held together by a common creed or an American idea. But there is no such creed and no such idea. What we share is an informal canon of texts I refer to as "The American Bible," and a practice of arguing about them.

While a challenger's presidential campaign can quickly adjust and adapt to shifting seas like a speedboat, an incumbent's campaign behaves more like a battleship, maneuvering slowly and making very large waves.

Is Barack Obama a Liberal? Well, maybe once upon a time, but today, no way. Just take a look at the history (and don't feel bad if you're surprised and disappointed. Your author sure was and he should have known better).

Fox broadcasted and laundered these lies and others like them until they became gospel for a segment of the population. Once, this role was reserved for talk radio or small-circulation ideological publications. Now the highest-rated cable news network in America broadcasts them.

By Sara Benincasa for Bookish: Campaign novels always make for dishy reading, but in a presidential election year, they really get us into the spir...

You've got your mom's reading material covered, but you're still lost on smart gifts for your dad. Steve Jobs's biography may be tempting, but we say ...

Can Detroit be saved? What are the myths of green energy? What can we learn from the boggled reconstruction of Iraq? Are we going to share a future of biometric surveillance? Just how did white middle-class Americans start identifying themselves as outsiders?

It will be months before their faces, voices, gaffes and heroic back-stories overtake the national consciousness. But with an eye toward 2012, several...

In an interview Monday, he said he wrote it because "I'm worried, both as governor and a husband and a father about the direction of our country" and ...

In the history of badly timed book titles, Los Angeles Times reporters Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten hold a distinguished place. The publication of...

The book only lands in stores today but it already feels like it's been around a while. The Washington Post and the New York Times have bashed out new...

As an editorial cartoonist who is also a writer and lover of books, I'm continually on the lookout for opportunities to draw literary-themed cartoons.

Jimmy Carter's "White House Diary," embargoed by its publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux until its release on Monday, had a brief ride on Google books...

NEW YORK — Jon Stewart is a busy man, a most important man who has no time for such pastimes as reading for pleasure. Unless, of course, the book...

In a quirk of convenience, [the opening] line also describes the best way to deconstruct The Overton Window, a copy of which Media Matters obtained an...

The contents of these books are just as confrontational as their titles, and while President Obama might have lamented the "coarsening of our politica...

May 25, 2010, NEW YORK - Michael Pietsch, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, announced today that Rick Perry, Governor ...

even politicians who write their own books don't write them alone, and we'd be better off looking past ghostwriting to the real problems behind politi...

To list Barnett as a signifier of Washington connectedness is like calling the sun a symbol of heat. This is good for his clients, who pay him $975 an...