Book Review: New Horror Novels Image Date Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 4:00 AM Description New books by Emily Ruth Verona, Jenny Kiefer, Christopher Golden and Tlotlo Tsamaase riff on classic tropes and deliver thrilling scares.
Interview: ‘Wolves of Winter’ author Dan Jones Image Date Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 4:00 AM Description “You’ve got to know when you’re onto a good thing,” says the prolific historian, British TV personality and author of “Wolves of Winter,” the second novel in his Hundred Years’ War trilogy.
Book Review: ‘Who Owns This Sentence?’ by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu Image Date Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 12:44 PM Description Plato and Pushkin, Mickey Mouse and “The Simpsons” make (permissible) appearances in this surprisingly zippy history of copyright protection.
Ghostwriters Emerge From the Shadows Image Date Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 12:02 PM Description Practitioners of the solitary and highly secretive profession got together to compare notes and celebrate their work.
11 Vintage Interiors Books to Fuel Your Home Design Fantasies Date Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 11:21 AM Description From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration.
Twisty New Psychological Thrillers Date Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 4:00 AM Description The setting of “The Fury,” the new novel by Alex Michaelides, is stunning. Its plot? Not so much.
In France, Journalism Drives a Boom for Comic Books and Graphic Novels Image Date Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 11:01 PM Description One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians.
A Boom in Comics Drawn From Fact Image Date Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 11:01 PM Description One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians.
Book Review: ‘The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years,’ by Shubnum Khan Date Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 1:31 PM Description Shubnum Khan’s “The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years” braids a rich historical love story with a contemporary coming-of-age tale in South Africa.
Book Review: ‘Last Acts,’ by Alexander Sammartino Date Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 7:23 AM Description “Last Acts,” by Alexander Sammartino, is a satire of contemporary America set at a firearms shop in Phoenix.