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...
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak. The...
For decades, conservative Christians opposed to homosexuality cited the Bible scholarship of Richard B. Hays, the dean of Duke Divinity School, who provided a full-on argument...
DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by Nnedi Okorafor In 2019, after Nnedi Okorafor had grown tired of being called an “afrofuturist,” she coined a new descriptor for...
The Unstoppables is a series about people whose ambition is undimmed by time. Below, Frederic Tuten explains, in his own words, what continues to motivate him....
Perhaps as part of the subterfuge about her age, she often erased this chapter from her life story, preferring to identify with Oklahoma, where the family...
