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Upton Sinclair's "The Moneychangers" isn't a rant against capitalism -- it's a somewhat melodramatic primer on the ways America's markets were gamed before there were credit default swaps.

No author is safe on the lists of most overrated books -- not even Shakespeare.

The pistols, poker games and rye whiskey of the American West may appeal to our columnist, but the fictional writer of "Journal of the Gun Years" would say it was a terrible time for professional g...

Every year, nature kills millions of people. So if the Communist Party killed a few hundred thousand Russians for the sake of the "most promising experiment in history," why the moral outrage? That...

"From Heaven Lake," published in 1983, is the story of Vikram Seth's trek through western China and Tibet based on a journal he kept at the time. He describes the smells, sounds and sights of the l...

Two World War I literary classics, "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Johnny Got His Gun," evoke the pain of soldiers past and present.

Cynthia Crossen, who reads scores of books every year, considers her favorite novels of the past 10 years, from John Banville's "The Untouchable" to Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto."