Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that tests your recognition of classic lines. This week’s installment celebrates lines from popular crime novels. (As a hint,...
Xia De-hong, who survived persecution and torture as an official in Mao Zedong’s China and was later the central figure in her daughter’s best-selling 1991 memoir,...
In prehistoric northern Europe, peatlands — areas of waterlogged soil rich with decaying plant matter — were considered spiritual sites. Since then, swords, jewelry and even...
SELLING OPPORTUNITY: The Story of Mary Kay, by Mary Lisa Gavenas Mary Kay, the cosmetics company whose multilevel marketing included sales parties and whose biggest earners...
We often think of the past as if it were another world — and in some ways, it is. The politics, religion and social customs of...
Sometime in the 2000s, the producer Lindsay Doran asked her doctor for a book recommendation. “I’m reading that book everybody’s reading,” the doctor replied. “You know,...
Siri Hustvedt was halfway through a new novel, about a writer tasked with completing his father’s unfinished manuscript, when her husband, the novelist Paul Auster, died...
There’s a Hollywood action star, standing in silhouette at the top of a creepy manor’s staircase, dressed in a corset and jockstrap, thighs fitted into fishnets...
Admittedly, Americans seem to have a soft spot for books about faraway places that end up reminding them of themselves. Hansen’s, though, is in many ways...
PRESTIGE DRAMA, by Séamas O’Reilly In recent years, a vibrant stream of writing has emerged from Northern Ireland concerning not just the Troubles, but also the...
