Quick! Name a story from ‘The Arabian Nights.” If you answered ‘Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” as most people probably …
Washington Post Books Jun. 15, 2019 10:54 pm2413d ago
Quick! Name a story from ‘The Arabian Nights.” If you answered ‘Aladdin and the Magic Lamp,” as most people probably …
By Marci Schmitt, Star Tribune Books Jun. 15, 2019 10:48 pm2413d ago
‘Roar” by Cecelia Ahern; Grand Central (273 pages, $26) — Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern offers bedtime stories for feminists in …
Nicole Y. Chung, The Washington Post Books Jun. 15, 2019 10:47 pm2413d ago
Inside China Canteen, a restaurant in a nondescript strip mall in Rockville, Maryland, novelist Lillian Li digs into her favorite …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Books Jun. 15, 2019 10:45 pm2413d ago
While Maria Kuznetsova was in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she was working on a doorstopper of a novel. ‘It was …
By Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post Books Jun. 15, 2019 10:35 pm2413d ago
If you’re looking for a worthy summer reading binge, stack your bedside table with the works of Dominic Smith, culminating …
By Mark Whitaker, Washington Post
Books Jun. 8, 2019 6:14 pm2420d ago
In the frigid December of 1896, more than 12,000 people jammed into the old Madison Square Garden on the East …
By Ilana Masad, Washington Post
Books Jun. 8, 2019 6:14 pm2420d ago
In recent weeks, as more and more states have been restricting abortions in blatant attempts to challenge the federal precedent …
By Kathie Meizner, Abby McGanney Nolan and Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post
Books Jun. 8, 2019 6:13 pm2420d ago
’A Friend for Henry” Henry is a little boy who keeps his arms close to his sides and doesn’t quite …
By Wendy Henrichs, correspondent
Books Jun. 1, 2019 3:00 pm2427d ago
Local children’s and Caldecott Award Winning author Jacqueline Briggs Martin pairs up with the highly accomplished children’s illustrator Larry Day …
Books Jun. 1, 2019 5:37 am2428d ago
It’s a safe guess you might get a ‘Boy, howdy,” greeting when meeting Craig Johnson. A best-selling author, best known …
By Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
Books May. 25, 2019 7:35 pm2434d ago
In need of summer reading? Bill Gates has some recommendations for you. In what’s become an annual tradition, the Microsoft …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Books May. 25, 2019 7:32 pm2434d ago
‘I’m done,” said Terry Brooks, one of the biggest-selling fantasy writers of all time, in a recent phone interview. ‘I …
By Carol Memmott, Washington Post
Books May. 25, 2019 7:23 pm2434d ago
In one of many can’t-look-away scenes in ‘The Paris Diversion,” a man wearing a suicide vest stops walking through the …
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