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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a week when numerous bigwigs from China’s entertainment companies have descended on Los Angeles for various U.S.-China summits, word comes that Hatchet Men: The Story of the Tong Wars in ...

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, ...

Publishers Weekly first broke the news Wednesday afternoon, tweeting that the Newbery Honor-winning writer died that morning. Book publishers such as Macmillan, Random House and Scholastic later paid ...

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 ...

In Hatchet Man, Honig calls Barr a “liar” and “an eager political partisan,” and accuses him of using his position “to impose his own legal and philosophical views on how civil society ought to ...

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.

Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s author who often drew upon his rural affinities and wide-ranging adventures for tales that included “Hatchet,” “Brian’s Winter” and “Dogsong,” has ...

VESSEL OF WRATH by Robert Lewis Taylor. 373 pages. New American Library. $6.95. In the 55 years since the death of Carry Nation, numerous biographers have sifted the implausible legend that was her ...

HATCHET GIRLS. By Joel R. Lansdale. Mulholland Books. 288 pages. $30. 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 ...

FALL RIVER — Just in time for Halloween, a new horror novel set in Fall River offers a modern twist on the city’s most famous murders and other haunted history. “It just felt like such a great place ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a week when numerous bigwigs from China’s entertainment companies have descended on Los Angeles for various U.S.-China summits, word comes that Hatchet Men: The Story of the Tong Wars in ...