Newly Published, From a Mozambican Emperor to Nazi Face Transplants
THE DRINKER OF HORIZONS, by Mia Couto. Translated by David Brookshaw. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) Set at the turn...
John Jakes, Whose Historical Novels Hit the Jackpot, Dies at 90
John Jakes, a superstar writer of historical fiction whose generational family sagas of the American Revolution and the Civil War...
Why Would Someone Steal Unpublished Manuscripts?
For more than five years, someone was stealing unpublished book manuscripts from editors, agents, authors and literary scouts. The question...
On the Road With a Grandma Named Pincer
THE DOG OF THE NORTH, by Elizabeth McKenzie In the road novel “The Dog of the South,” Charles Portis’s feckless...
22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring
Good news, fiction lovers: This season will bring plenty to delight you, no matter what you like to read. March...
Julia Bartz Wrote a Thriller. Then She Found Her Voice.
If your book is as buzzy as Julia Bartz’s debut thriller, “The Writing Retreat,” you know what’s in your future:...
Ian Falconer, Creator of Olivia, the Energetic Piglet, Dies at 63
Ian Falconer, who had built a successful career designing opera sets with David Hockney and drawing covers for The New...
The Only Woman photo series is your ultimate guide to history’s most inspirational women
Get ready for a fascinating glimpse into history’s unsung glass ceiling breakers in Immy Humes’ The Only Woman. We all...
A Debut Novel Creates a World From Pages Taken From the Past
The author Alice Winn was procrastinating, digging through the archives of the English boarding school she had attended, when she...
… It’s the Oscars that Got Small
Are the Oscars history? What else to conclude from the recent publication of two erudite if waggish books about this...