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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness,’ by Peter Kuper

30 Dec 2019

Before you read Peter Kuper’s graphic novel version of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” take a moment to riff through its pages quickly, like you would a flipbook. That’s...

Curmudgeons in love: Olive Kitteridge is back

28 Dec 2019

A cranky old woman living in a small town in Maine might not sound like the richest subject for a fiction writer. But the indomitable Olive Kitteridge burst into...

'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57

25 Dec 2019

Da Chen, the brilliant storyteller who drew from the hardships he suffered as a persecuted child growing up in the midst of China’s cultural revolution to create the critically...

Julie Andrews and Mark Morris have written new memoirs; one is candid, the other circumspect

23 Dec 2019

Choreographer Mark Morris and performer/writer Julie Andrews would seem to have little in common — though I would definitely enjoy eavesdropping on their conversation, should they ever meet —...

John Hodgman on fame and why he’s not faking it anymore

21 Dec 2019

Whether you first saw him on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” or as the rumpled personification of a PC in a series of computer commercials, John Hodgman is...

“Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death” by: Michael Korda

19 Dec 2019

Those of us who are members of that enormous, sad club — the club of people who have lost loved ones to cancer — will find much that resonates...

In ‘This Is Happiness,’ humanity is found in Irish village lost in past

16 Dec 2019

The Ireland that Niall Williams writes about in this novel is gone — or would be if he hadn’t cradled it so tenderly in the clover of his prose....

Sarah Broom remembers Hurricane Katrina in ‘The Yellow House’

15 Dec 2019

One of the most striking moments in Sarah M. Broom’s enthralling memoir, “The Yellow House,” comes near its end. Broom’s indomitable mother, Ivory Mae Broom, was born and raised...

Wimpy Kid author gets French medal

10 Dec 2019

The Wimpy Kid has finally done good — and his creator Jeff Kinney has even got a medal from France to prove it. The American creator of the bestseller...

Jeff Lindsay has entertaining new thriller

07 Dec 2019

Riley Wolfe gets his kicks executing spectacular robberies that no one else would even contemplate. His victims are always the super-rich, whom he despises as "smug, do-nothing, self-loving leeches.”...

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