When journalist Katherine Boo began working on her book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” she wasn’t sure if anyone would read it. The nonfiction work, which chronicles the lives of slum dwellers near ...

Reviewed by Carolyn J. Kroehler She lives in Blacksburg and is interested in how science is communicated to non-science audiences. From the very first lines of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, ...

Novelist Louise Erdrich and journalist Katherine Boo took the top prizes at the National Book Awards in New York on Wednesday night. Although set half a world apart, both women’s books express what ...

(AP) Robert Caro, Katherine Boo and the late Anthony Shadid are among the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Boo already won the National Book Award for her nonfiction account of a ...

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...