WHAT BOOK would author Lionel Shriver take to a desert island?
WHAT BOOK would author Lionel Shriver take to a desert island? Author and journalist Lionel Shriver is reading Outside Looking […]
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And you thought today's Scottish politics was bloody!
And you thought today’s Scottish politics was bloody! Never mind Sturgeon’s battles: when the Scots met the English at Culloden, […]
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BLACK BUCKBy Mateo Askaripour388 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $26. This winning novel — or is it a self-help book? — […]
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MILAN — Those love locks affixed to the Pont des Arts in Paris, the Ponte Milvio in Rome and the […]
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Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, “Fake Accounts,” features a nameless narrator […]
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Halfway through “Lolita,” Humbert Humbert — relaxed, triumphant and a mere pinch of pages away from his downfall — stops […]
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