The author looks at the political and personal relationships of the Clintons.

Read a review of ‘Muck City’ in Tropical Life, Page 6M.

If Jess Walter had a time machine, the dial would surely be set to Italy in 1962.

Anne Lamott’s latest book is named for her favorite essential prayers for everyday life: Help Thanks Wow.

Pam Houston has always stirred a healthy dose of reality into her fiction, and so when you read her latest novel and note that there are several near plane crashes in it, you have to ask: How many of those actually — gulp — happened?

She wasn’t saying it to be mean or anything, Justin Cronin’s daughter Iris assured him, but it was time to face facts: Those earnest literary novels he was writing were boring, no matter how many prizes they were winning. He needed to jazz things up.

Fox News TV host and bestselling author Bill O’Reilly delves into history to bring the past alive.

Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz will share lessons about the transformation of the city under his administration, detailed in his new book, at the Miami Book Fair on Friday.

In his newest book, writer Adam Gopnik tackles nothing less than the meaning of food, from the rise of the restaurant in pre-revolutionary France to today’s foodie culture.

As graphic novels and comics grow in acceptance and influence in popular culture and literature, their prominence at the Miami Book Fair International is also rising.

Because she’s a famous actress, and because you still associate her with the classic teen-film trilogy of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, you start reading Molly Ringwald’s fiction debut When It Happens to You looking for movie references. You expect a more facile, disposable book, because countless actors have written autobiographies and dishy tell-alls and fact-based tales of Hollywood shenanigans. But when you start to think of famous actors who made the leap to novelist, you come up empty.

A Miami Book Fair International panel on erotica will debate life after ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’

Author Sandra Cisneros paid tribute Tuesday night to her late mother with words and laughter.

Khaled Hosseini’s novels about Afghanistan and its people can break your heart. But readers are not the only ones who find themselves deeply moved by the darker elements of his stories.

A journalist’s very personal account of how his home country progressed into a state of drug wars, violence and corruption

Batman Incorporated: Demon Star. Grant Morison and Chris Burnham. DC Comics. 176 pages. $24.99.

Carl Hiaasen’s latest spoof involves an unattached arm, a good cop and a nasty monkey.

A scandal sends a sheltered teenage girl away from home to a mountain camp to ride horses and learn about life.

“Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings. It’s such a fantastic book, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those novels you have on a plane, and you’re excited because you have this book with you, and you’re looking forward to being consumed by it.”

George Packer tracks how rich and poor dealt with the enormous changes wrought in the last 35 years.

The following is an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” which will be released on Tuesday. Another excerpt was published in Sunday’s Tropical Life, and a third will be published Wednesday. You can read them all at MiamiHerald.com.

The following is an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” which was released on Tuesday. Additional excerpts were published Sunday and Tuesday. You can read them all at MiamiHerald.com.

National Book Award winner Colum McCann goes back and forth between eras and continents to define lives and history.