What’s most fascinating to me as a reader is that Szalay has deliberately removed one of the most potent tools a novelist has, the ability to render a character’s thoughts and feelings.
Joe Dunthorne unravels the story of his great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher, a German Jewish chemist who left behind a 2,000-page memoir.
Cynthia Pelayo just wrote a novel weaving together a serial killer, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a plane crash at O’Hare, Chet’s Melody Lounge in Justice and Resurrection Mary.
When I found out that there is a 608-page book titled “Fleetwood Mac All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track,” I knew I had to get my hands on a copy.
Babs Dionne’s world is much smaller than the planet, but to her it’s everything, and her death is truly a combination of savage and noble, a perfect description of the novel itself.
Funding for new books in Spanish in the Oak Lawn Community High School library help “meet the needs of our community,” educators say.
John Feinstein was an observer and reporter who went long and deep on his subjects in order to reveal insights that would otherwise remain hidden.
Reading the UK edition of “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey reminded me that a book’s layout and design absolutely impact our experience of reading it.
It has always been a festival of ideas, never more appreciated than now.
He wrote such memorable books as “The New Centurions” and “The Onion Field.” He died on Feb. 28 in Rancho Mirage, California.