Fans of Anne Shirley (‘Anne of Green Gables”) might understandably be skeptical of a prequel to the beloved stories by …
By Holly Collier Willmarth, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Books Apr. 14, 2019 12:58 am2369d ago
Fans of Anne Shirley (‘Anne of Green Gables”) might understandably be skeptical of a prequel to the beloved stories by …
By Kamrun Nesa, The Washington Post Books Apr. 14, 2019 12:57 am2369d ago
Chanel Cleeton’s ‘Next Year in Havana” got a huge boost when Reese Witherspoon selected it for her book club in …
By Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post Books Apr. 14, 2019 12:57 am2369d ago
The opening of Nell Freudenberger’s new novel, ‘Lost and Wanted,” echoes a classic”Twilight Zone” episode. In ‘Night Call,” a phone …
By Barbara A. Perry, Washington Post Books Apr. 14, 2019 12:57 am2369d ago
My one and only meeting with first lady Barbara Bush came just six months before she died. The occasion was …
By Mary Louise Kelly, Washington Post Books Apr. 14, 2019 12:56 am2369d ago
In December 1940, the operations chief of France’s largest spy network walked into a bar in the port city of …
By Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times
Books Apr. 9, 2019 10:56 am2373d ago
Maisie Dobbs’ devoted readers have been through a lot with her. In ‘The American Agent,” the 14th novel about Dobbs …
By Karen R. Long, Newsday
Books Apr. 7, 2019 10:28 am2375d ago
Laila Lalami sets her fourth novel, ‘The Other Americans,” in a contemporary United States, a big departure for an artist …
By Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post
Books Apr. 7, 2019 10:27 am2375d ago
Everyone’s got a book in them, and Frank Widdicombe, a Bainbridge Island paterfamilias, has determined that he will write one …
Art Apr. 6, 2019 3:36 pm2376d ago
This Tuesday, April 9, won’t be the first time New Yorker magazine cartoonist Roz Chast has been to Iowa, actually. …
By Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post
Books Mar. 31, 2019 4:34 pm2382d ago
Josh Malerman is best known for his disturbing, deeply original novel ‘Bird Box,” about a mother determined to save her …
By Daniel Akst, Newsday (TNS)
Books Mar. 31, 2019 4:33 pm2382d ago
Comedy, it’s been said, is tragedy plus time. Is there any better evidence of this proposition than ‘The Producers?” Written …
By Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune
Books Mar. 31, 2019 4:32 pm2382d ago
Tawanda ‘Tee” Marie Hanible proudly lists the things that she is: a woman, a mother, a daughter, a philanthropist, a …
By Chris Richards, The Washington Post
Books Mar. 31, 2019 4:30 pm2382d ago
Music came so easily to Prince, one of the most difficult things in his purple life was convincing others that …
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