Queen Esther' is a literary riffing on a biblical story. It also might be the most sympathetic treatment of Jewish themes by ...

Queen Esther” is John Irving’s return after forty years to the orphanage of “The Cider House Rules,” his bestselling novel ...

Irving's first book for children, an atmospheric story originally included as part of his adult novel A Widow for One Year , introduces wide-eyed Tom, pictured in adorably rumpled pajamas. The boy ...

NEW YORK – In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced Thursday ...

The literary titan is still publishing books, and still pushing envelopes, at 83. But you will not see him in the United States anytime soon. By Scott Cacciola His new novel returns to a familiar ...

John Irving has written huge bestsellers, beginning with "The World According To Garp." And now at the age of 80, he's written his longest novel, putting pen to paper like a Dickensian scrivener on a ...

Writer John Irving doesn't believe in miracles — but he is fascinated by them. And there is much that is both miraculous and mysterious in his new book, Avenue of Mysteries. Irving has written 14 ...

John Irving's 'Queen Esther' Returns Readers to Setting of 'The Cider House Rules' NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made ...

A 1960s crime caper, a biography of the man who created the modern F.B.I., Sinead O’Connor’s memoir: Reporters, writers, editors and bureau chiefs describe their favorite reads of the year. Former ...

Editor's note: This story was reprinted with permission from the fall edition of the University of New Hampshire Magazine. A John Irving conversation unfolds like a John Irving novel. The sentences ...