Oprah's newest book club selection is a both "a heartbreaker and a heart healer," says the author Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016.

Much has been said about love in literature. True love's first kiss will cure all. The greatest gift we have is love. Love is the most powerful magic. But Tayari Jones knows the truth: "How you feel ...

Oprah may not be ready to run for president, but she is ready to recommend another remarkable read to the horde of hungry book-lovers who have, time and time again, taken her suggestions to heart and ...

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work,” Toni Morrison wrote in 2004, after the re-election of George W. Bush. “Not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!” ...

An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones (Algonquin). This powerful novel follows a young, upwardly mobile African-American couple in Atlanta as their marriage is falling apart. It’s a disaster not of ...

In the mid-twentieth century, America’s marriage regime was legally restructured from a public to a private institution. Whereas at the American Founding marriage was itself a facet of public life ...