“You’d be shocked by how many books have women chained in basements,” Reese Witherspoon said. “I know it happens in…
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What books are on your night stand? “A Scanner Darkly,” Philip K. Dick; “Trust,” Hernan Diaz. Describe your ideal reading…
Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But…
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a…
After a rough start to the rollout of her memoir, the South Dakota governor has continued to defend shooting her…
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Midnight, at the kitchen table, with a bowl of cornflakes. How…
“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent…
The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is…
When Will Evans arrived in Dallas just over a decade ago, he had a degree in Russian literature, a passion…
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN: An Alphabetary of the Colonized World, by Jamaica Kincaid. Illustrated by Kara Walker.…