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 ...

The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about ...

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 ...

Awkward. It’s not the first time I’ve heard of kids not enjoying the children’s classic by EB White, but there’s a reason it’s on most year four book lists. It’s an old-school classic ...

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 ...

There's something for every kind of reader in the fall 2024 slate of new book releases. A deluge of spell-bounding and exhilarating reads are incoming this season, and they're all waiting to join ...

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 ...

Dehli Ki Aakhri Shama, written by Mirza Farhatullah ... across the writings of the authors mentioned above. The historical novel is a story of a fictitious mushaira (poetic symposium) held in ...

McWilliams's new book presents money as the key player in our changing times. As Roger Lewis finds out, Emma Kenny's new book The Serial Killer Next Door is not for the faint hearted. This is a ...

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