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 ...

Exactly 100 pages into Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the illusions of Jean Louise Finch and several generations of idealists are shattered when, arranging her father’s pile of reading material on a ...

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 ...

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 When an author is no longer with us or mentally incapable of expressing his/her wishes, deciding what to do with unpublished work can be challenging ...

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 ...

Atticus Finch’s dark side emerges in Harper Lee’s new book, “Go Set a Watchman.” — -- In the classic book and iconic film “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus Finch stood as a towering symbol of ...

We often think of great novels (and films, plays, symphonies and so on) as having burst into existence fully formed, inspired and conceived exactly as the near-perfect works with which we’re familiar.

Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” won’t be released to the public until Tuesday, but readers already know that the book reveals a darker side to Atticus Finch. Finch, of course, is the beloved moral ...

Harper Lee's latest novel, "Go Set a Watchman," is a very different story from "To Kill a Mockingbird," but those closest to the author say it may be the one she wanted to tell all along, reports CBS ...

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.