The big expensive picture book is probably a fixed Christmas institution for the foreseeable future. As publishers recognize, its very size and expensiveness make it sell. Both price tag and ...

CASTLE DOR (274 pp.)—Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier—Doubleday ($4.50). This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are ...

The cover art is by Erik Rodriguez and features a tongue-in-cheek illustration of Paul holding up two turkey legs — a.k.a. his drum sticks. This is an officially licensed book from Paul’s estate.

“For Jim, it was a crack in the mask he wore,” writes Joel Selvin, the former San Francisco Chronicle music critic, in his deeply reported and well-written book “Drums & Demons: The Tragic ...

"The End Of Drum-Time" opens with an earthquake that shakes ... PYLVAINEN: Well, my first book, "We Sinners," takes place among a small, Finnish, fundamentalist sect, which is Laestadianism ...

“The End of Drum-Time,” by Hanna Pylväinen (Henry Holt ... and I was excited to read this book. I had expected a recounting of her research findings, and I got that, but so much more ...