There’s a certain joy that comes with reading a great literary takedown, the kind of mean but intelligent and precise review that eviscerates the pretensions and the sloppiness of a truly awful book.

A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor's pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale's ...

Gary Paulsen—prolific adventure author best known for the Newbery Medal-winning Hatchet and its sequels—has died, as confirmed in a tweet by Publishers Weekly. A cause of death has not been released, ...

Author and wilderness advocate Gary Paulsen, best known for writing young adult literature including the Hatchet novel series, has passed away. Publisher’s Weekly brings word of Paulsen’s death, ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Popular teen fiction author Gary Paulsen died on Wednesday morning at age 82, Publishers Weekly ...

His 200 books, among them “Hatchet” and “Dogsong,” inspired generations with their tales of exploration, survival and the bloody reality of the natural world. By Clay Risen Gary Paulsen, a prolific ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...