After Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, he instantly gained a wider international audience, something publishers are now scrambling to accommodate.…
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Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard someone comment that no…
Lee Child writes on why we’re all holding out for a hero like Jack Reacher
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James Bond: Roger Moore Moonraker love scene with Lois Chiles ‘hardest of my career’
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New in Paperback: ‘Memorial’ and ‘Singular Sensation’
By Jennifer Krauss THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War, by Catherine Grace Katz. (Mariner, 432 pp.,…
Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections
By Tracy O’Neill THE RUIN OF EVERYTHINGBy Lara Stapleton123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18. If love conquers all, in Stapleton’s second story collection it’s not…
A History of Modernity That Puts Africa at Center Stage
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nigel Cliff BORN IN BLACKNESS Africa, Africans, and the…
Cursed for Life? Not So Fast, Say Alice Hoffman’s Witches
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Joanne Ramos THE BOOK OF MAGICBy Alice Hoffman “Some…
John le Carré’s Last Completed Spy Novel Crowns a Career Attuned to Moral Ambivalence
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Joseph Finder SILVERVIEW By John le Carré Sixty years…
Bookmobiles, Anderson Cooper and Other Letters to the Editor
Books on Wheels To the Editor: Thank you for Erica Ackerberg’s feature on bookmobiles (Sept. 19), which brought back the joy I felt driving a…