The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History' spoke with PEOPLE at the Texas Book Festival about her thoughts on success and who she'd want to portray her characters Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books ...

Bestselling author Claire Messud will appear at Interabang Books on Nov. 17 to discuss her new book, "This Strange Eventful History," in a conversation with store co-owner Lori Feathers. Lucian Wood ...

If you’re a hopeless people-watcher or your ears perk when you overhear bizarre or intimate thoughts, you’ll be interested in The Ties that Bind, the latest from Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters ...

It is also an interesting documentation of a French-Algerian (pieds-noirs) family, wandering and adrift in the upheavals of the 20th century. The novel opens with a mother and her children fleeing war ...

Claire Messud, author of several award-winning novels, including ”The Last Life” and ”This Strange, Eventful History,” spoke as part of a panel with other writers at the Blackburn Literary Festival ...

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker There are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only two by U.K. authors. By Alex ...

Claire Messud’s complex and disquieting new novel, “The Woman Upstairs,” is a tale of obsession and violation – dressed in the guise of friendship. Like Messud’s celebrated “The Emperor’s Children,” ...

"The latest from the renowned painter Marlene Dumas' new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the ...

The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History' spoke with PEOPLE at the Texas Book Festival about her thoughts on success and who she'd want to portray her characters Franco Origlia/Getty Claire Messud ...