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The Best Crime Novels of the Year
Lisa Sandlin’s irresistible mystery THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos, paper, $16.95) is set in 1973 in Beaumont, a bustling city on the Texas Gulf Coast…
9 invigorating literary quotes to make you feel optimistic about the new year
Courtesy of Emily Dickinson, Rupi Kaur, Helen Fielding and more. For a long time, my fondness for inspirational quotes was not something I was proud…
Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019
In the literary world, it has been a year of big, bold ambition. Novelists have stretched their canvases — writing a sentence that runs for…
The singer who made Dickens weep
The singer who made Dickens weep . . . and was in a love triangle with the Russian novelist Turgenev — who was so obsessed…
The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It’s Not Downton’s Dowager
LIFE IN A COLD CLIMATENancy Mitford: The BiographyBy Laura Thompson By Christopher Benfey Now remind me, which one was Nancy? That’s a question you’re likely…
‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer Delivers Fresh Horrors
DEAD ASTRONAUTSBy Jeff VanderMeer One of the strange and oddly delicious minds we inhabit in “Dead Astronauts” belongs to a “defiantly ugly fish … between…
Game of Thrones book theory: King Bran will NOT keep democracy after ASOIAF but do THIS
After all the fire and blood, the War of the Five Kings ended with the Iron Throne destroyed. The rightful heir Aegon Targaryen – a…
Dorothy Seymour Mills, Uncredited Baseball Historian, Dies at 91
Dorothy Seymour Mills, who collaborated for more than 30 years on a landmark three-volume history of baseball with her first husband, Harold Seymour — although…
Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit
Clive James, who died on Sunday at 80, mined such a rich vein of wit in his writing — poems, memoirs, translations, novels, song lyrics,…