Leamer is undeniably excellent at setting a scene, especially a louche one. He knows just when to have someone wonder if he’s caught crabs from a...
Take the Murguia family: Amalia and Alfredo immigrated from a small region in central Mexico to Kansas City, and had seven children, five of whom shared...
In the 1980s, an assistant at Glamour took her romantic life to the next level with the aid of two lemons and a chicken. At the...
Susan Hagen, 48, was practically vibrating with excitement. She would soon be in the same room with three women who had helped her through some of...
GULF, by Mo Ogrodnik Five women from different countries and social classes find themselves living in and around the Arabian Peninsula in Mo Ogrodnik’s debut novel,...
But Summerscale gives equal time to Christie’s unfortunate victims, treating them as real people rather than pawns in someone else’s story. And she skillfully examines the...
Nineteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction, biography and history,...
THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark For half a century — much longer, if you...
TEQUILA WARS: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico, by Ted Genoways As far as personal branding goes, getting name-checked in multiple...
Situations where you exhibited cruelty? I don’t know if it would be cruelty, but anger, rage, certain desires that would have never exhibited in my brother....
