"Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol," a series that premiered on Peacock last week featuring ace symbologist Robert Langdon, represents another high …
Nelson Memorial Library will have a grand opening event at 9 a.m. Monday so community members can see the newly renovated and expanded building.
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 11, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesaler…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 11, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesaler…
FICTION: Joy Williams' grim, goofy meditation on the apocalypse. "Harrow" by Joy Williams; Alfred A. Knopf (224 pages, $26) ——— It's a good th…
In April 1985, Dublin-born Niall Williams ("This Is Happiness") and his American wife, Christine Breen, left New York City and moved to Breen'…
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FICTION: Colson Whitehead's enthralling, evocative new novel transforms a petty heist into a resonant exploration of race and class. "Harlem S…
NONFICTION: A keenly observed memoir about the author's arduous travels in search of himself. "Saga Boy" by Antonio Michael Downing; Milkweed …
Growing up in Miami in a family of immigrants from Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez sought role models in Spanish-language films and …
FICTION: A wistful and whimsical novel looking at life in a tiny Icelandic village. "Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night" by Jón Kalman Ste…
"Matrix" by Lauren Groff; Riverhead Books (260 pages, $28) ——— In her 2018 story collection, "Florida," Lauren Groff gave readers an unexpecte…
NONFICTION: This luminous collection of essays by Margaret Renkl explores American culture, politics and history. "Graceland, At Last" by: Mar…
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Here are five nonfiction books to look forward to this fall. (And only one of them is about politics.)
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 4, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers…
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 4, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers…
She said “Piranesi” was “the book I never thought I would get to write. I never thought I would be well enough.”
FICTION: A French teenager rises to become the formidable prioress of an English convent. "Matrix" by Lauren Groff; Riverhead (272 pages, $28)…
NONFICTION: Native writer Joy Harjo retells her most important stories. "Poet Warrior" by Joy Harjo; W.W. Norton (226 pages, $25) ——— The firs…
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The pandemic has forced many to rethink and readjust their present with their future. Some have left jobs that provided steady paychecks and a…
FICTION: Colm Tóibín's retelling of the life of Thomas Mann is infused with the larger issues of the 20th century. "The Magician" by Colm Tóib…
CHICAGO — Dawn Turner describes the Bronzeville of the 1970s as neither here nor there, as an electric, crumbling nexus, that rare Chicago nei…
Not much happens in R.C. Sherriff's "The Fortnight in September," and that quietness is part of the novel's immense charm. The English seaside…
LOS ANGELES — When author María Amparo Escandón moved to New York from Los Angeles in 2014, she'd often hear New Yorkers claim L.A. has no wea…
FICTION: A Pulitzer Prize winner returns with a robust if uneven novel that encapsulates the American Century. "Late City" by Robert Olen Butl…
FICTION: The author of "Normal People" returns with another perceptive novel about relationships. "Beautiful World, Where Are You" by Sally Ro…
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