Let me play devil’s advocate for a moment: Why should the revelations in “Go Set a Watchman”-- most notably, its portrait of Atticus Finch as a segregationist -- change the way we think about Harper ...

“Watchman is compelling in its timeliness. During the historical moment in which the novel takes place, in states such as Georgia and South Carolina, legislators had begun to authorize the raising of ...

Even before Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee's second book, "Go Set A Watchman," was published July 14, readers were quick to discuss whether it would be any good. Some suggested nothing could ...

To publish or not to publish, that is the question. When an author is no longer with us or mentally incapable of expressing his/her wishes, deciding what to do with unpublished work can be challenging ...

It’s strange to think of Scout, eternally a 10-year-old desperado, as an adult. Strange to think that Jem is dead. Strange to think that “Go Set a Watchman,” the original draft of the book that became ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Bookstores opened early Tuesday morning across the country for customers eager to be the first to buy Harper Lee's new novel, "Go Set a Watchman." "In our lifetimes, we never thought ...

I will confess that, as I opened Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” Tuesday morning, I was prepared to find the book a disappointment and to suggest that it would have been more appropriate to release ...

It would be a mistake to read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” as a sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Yes, it takes place a generation after the earlier book, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly 100 pages into Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the illusions of Jean Louise Finch and several generations of idealists are ...

Actor Gregory Peck is shown as attorney Atticus Finch, a small-town Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape, in a scene from "To Kill a Mockingbird," based on the novel by Harper Lee.

For a graphic designer, being asked to come up for a cover for Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman (available this week) must have been like walking into a minefield. No wonder it took so many tries to get ...