a memorable crime debut is back—in spades—in Swain's second book about ex-cop Tony Valentine, who advises gambling casinos on how to spot and stop cheaters.... Swain's fourth Tony Valentine ...

Scientific American Harms Science by Endorsing Harris That is the title of a new book by Professor Carol Swain. She is a black scholar (whose work was plagiarized by Claudine Gay) who argues that ...

Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture ... which was drawn up on the orders of King William I, it describes in remarkable detail ...

Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the goddess Proserpina to model for him in a mystical garden ...

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution. By A.O. Scott The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg ...

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The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow. The last few titles on the list known as the extended list ...

Sep 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Tiana Reid A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial. Sep 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Colin Jones In Courtney Thorsson's cultural history The Sisterhood ...

Readers of the books will know that this is Brynden ... Bloodraven because his red birthmark resembled a raven. He is the ...

Author Stephen King learned his books have been pulled from some Florida public school libraries, and he's not happy about it. "Florida has banned 23 of my books," King wrote in a weekend social ...

1. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action ...

There have been Elvis coloring books, Elvis memorabilia books and Elvis cookbooks (inevitably, Brenda Butler's "Are You Hungry Tonight?" includes a recipe for a fried peanut butter-and-"nana ...