‘A world gone wrong.” Of all the signature lines that Raymond Chandler bequeathed to the world, this one may be …
By Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post Books Jan. 12, 2020 8:40 am2202d ago
‘A world gone wrong.” Of all the signature lines that Raymond Chandler bequeathed to the world, this one may be …
By Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post Books Jan. 12, 2020 7:40 am2202d ago
When Christine and Forrest Bray adopted Opal, a 4-month-old blind and deaf Australian shepherd mix, they worried about what she …
By Ellen Morton, Washington Post Books Jan. 5, 2020 12:00 pm2209d ago
One of the greatest joys of this chilly season is afternoons inside, cozied up with a mug of hot chocolate …
By Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post Books Jan. 5, 2020 10:00 am2209d ago
Most people know that the purpose of the Nuremberg trials was to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. But trials …
By Ron Charles, Washington Post Books Jan. 5, 2020 9:00 am2209d ago
‘We have a ghost in here.” That’s how Toni Morrison writes in ‘Beloved” about the spiteful specter that haunts an …
By Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times
Books Jan. 5, 2020 8:00 am2209d ago
With Oscar season in full swing, a new batch of classic and memorable books makes the leap from page to …
By Karen MacPherson, Washington Post
Books Jan. 5, 2020 8:00 am2209d ago
Alexander McCall Smith was a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh when he published his debut novel, …
By Angela Haupt, Washington Post
Books Jan. 4, 2020 3:40 pm2210d ago
If you read it and loved it in 2019, read more like it in 2020. Here are 12 books, from …
By George Bass, Washington Post
Books Jan. 4, 2020 10:40 am2210d ago
‘Blade Runner,” the movie based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” takes place in …
By Ron Charles, Washington Post
Books Jan. 4, 2020 8:40 am2210d ago
Some 3,000 years ago, the preacher in Ecclesiastes proclaimed, ‘Of making many books there is no end,” but how those …
By Richard Lipez, Washington Post
Books Jan. 4, 2020 8:40 am2210d ago
The title of Tom Rosenstiel’s latest thriller, ‘Oppo,” is a euphemism for digging up unseemly information about a political opponent. …
By Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
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A perfect gift book is not for reading. Not now. You don’t want to give someone a book, watch them …
By Kelly McMasters, Newsday
Books Dec. 22, 2019 3:15 pm2223d ago
Carmen Maria Machado opened her first book, the National Book Award finalist ‘Her Body and Other Parties: Stories”, with this …
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