The author and lawyer Scott Turow has never forgotten a harrowing conversation he had long ago with the mother of a young man charged with murder....
Did you tell your parents what the book was about? I did. Two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. I kept stalling. We had a half-hour to...
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen In Alafair Burke’s new thriller, “The Note,” three women with a lot of baggage are vacationing together...
A terminally ill writer goes into the hospital. Aware that it will be his final stay, he holds onto a notebook, declaring to his family that...
In the years since, he has watched with alarm as China has continued its efforts to force Tibetans to assimilate, using tactics that include placing Tibetan...
In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them but the treatment...
As a child in the 1930s, Jules loved radio dramas and newspaper comic strips. In his 2010 memoir, “Backing Into Forward,” he cited as influences the...
Joel Paley, a dancer, playwright and director who wrote the book and lyrics for “Ruthless!,” an award-winning Off Broadway musical about an ambitious girl who will...
Claire van Kampen, who created authentic musical worlds for period works starring her husband, Mark Rylance, including Shakespearean plays and the TV show “Wolf Hall,” and...
Jon Ingold finds most video game writing empty at best, turgid at worst. Ingold, an author of celebrated narrative-driven games including 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault,...
