He wrestled with faith, doubt and his own flawed humanity, translating those struggles into novels that described the chaos and contradictions of life, and his writing became a mirror for readers ...

The debut novel in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, Whose Body? opens with the discovery of an anonymous man’s body in a bathtub. Even more confusing is that the unknown victim is wearing nothing ...

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By Bruce Handy A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course. By Lev Grossman More than 25 ...

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In what the author says is his last novel, both a family and a society are on the verge of collapse. “The Message” marks his re-entry as a public intellectual determined to wield his moral ...

To many he was a ruthless and excessively harsh ruler. But in Dan Jones's new book, Kathryn Hughes discovers that Henry V was actually just a product of his age and instead of being cruel ...

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