WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS, by Grady Hendrix What is a wayward girl? In American history, waywardism was a capacious category, large enough to contain all of...
A CALAMITY OF NOBLE HOUSES, by Amira Ghenim; translated by Miled Faiza and Karen McNeil Little is known about the personal life of Tahar Haddad, the...
“Small towns don’t forgive easily,” Lange writes. “Even when they do, they never forget.” In alternating sections, we watch Kyle and Casey fall in love as...
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT: A True Crime Story, by Pagan Kennedy In 2021, the Smithsonian acquired something called the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit...
Meanwhile, Nila lives in a building defaced by swastika graffiti, probably the handiwork of skinheads living down her hall. Women in head scarves have been stabbed...
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1977, Karen...
By James Grippando A veteran best-selling legal thriller writer has a new book out this month featuring his signature defense attorney character. No, not that one...
MY DARLING BOY, by John Dufresne John Dufresne, known for his dark, rollicking novels laced with wit, grit, compassion and offbeat characters, has written an improbably...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment revisits now-classic books, published in the first half...
In June 1972, Judge Roth ordered a broad integration plan, which included such prosperous suburbs as Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills in the same “metropolitan” school...
