In recent decades, there has been a noticeable surge of wordsmiths using their pens to craft immersive chronicles ranging from autobiographies to enlightening self-help books. While these artists ...

Westside Gunn belongs to a lineage of hustler rappers for whom street credibility often coexists with artful exaggeration. He released his latest album, 12, on Valentine's Day.

In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr.

14TH STREET—Percy Shostac—Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Poet Shostac has less to say about Manhattan's 14th St. than about himself. He writes this segment of autobiography in unrhymed, ...

A book on the Holocaust and Maya Angelou's autobiography were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library this week.

Grammy-nominated rapper and Chicago native Vic Mensa has reportedly joined forces with his friend and fellow rapper Hundred Round Kado to launch Books Before Bars, a program to send books to ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights into his papacy.

After making her Grammy Awards debut at age 80, we round up the best Joni Mitchell biographies, books and music: Here's were to find and buy online.

Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) are rappers, record moguls and old pals whose friendship dates all the way back to the '90s.

The most essential hip-hop books, including works about Queen Latifah, Rakim, Pimp C, Prodigy, and the business of rap.

The deaths of three Michigan rappers whose bodies were found in an abandoned apartment building in early February were related to gang violence, state police said, asking members of the public who ...