RSS Items

Lesson of the day: Don’t underestimate basics.

Hmmm….

For $27 (not including tax and shipping), you can own a baseball cap embroidered with the name of your favorite literary darling, too.

For $27 (not including tax and shipping), you can own a baseball cap embroidered with the name of your favorite literary darling, too.

In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.

The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn’t make the movie indebted to the musician.

A noted educator and anthropologist, she spent almost her entire life in China, where she was a committed friend of the Communist government.

The fifth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.

Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window into the psychology of oppression. Here’s where to start.