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Edna O'Brien's first novel was burned in the small Irish village of her birth. The Love Object collects more than 30 of her fiery tales of religion and repression in "a land of sacrificial women."

Author Daniel Alarcón's new graphic novel is adapted from a short story about a young Peruvian journalist who discovers strange links between his father and the impoverished street clowns of Lima.

Steve Toutonghi's new novel imagines an America where people can fuse their psyches together and share a single body — but the story's compelling urgency is sometimes buried in exposition and theory.

Adam Haslett's new novel focuses on a family tormented by father-and-son battles with chronic depression and anxiety. He captures the lasting reverberations of suicide with precision and tenderness.

Chester Brown's new graphic novel is hard to categorize — a work of lay scholarship about prostitution in the Bible that's simultaneously ideosyncratic, meticulous, imaginative and heretical.

In a rousing and personal farewell speech this week in parliament, the former prime minister touched on family, politics and one of the very few things she will ask of her colleagues as she departs.

Kate Moore's account of the sufferings and struggles of the Radium Girls — factory workers who were poisoned by the glowing radium paint they worked with — reads like a true crime narrative.

Colleen Shogan loves being surrounded by documents — and that's probably for the best. The former political science professor is now in charge of the 13.5 billion records in the National Archives.

President Bush welcomed Pope Benedict to Washington, in the first visit to the White House in nearly 30 years. Benedict spoke with President Bush about Iraq and foreign policy in the first full day of his U.S. trip. The pontiff also celebrated his 81st birthday.

Government has been part of the business of medicine at least since the 1940s, when Washington began appropriating billions of dollars to build private and government hospitals.