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Jane Urquhart’s eighth novel is a gorgeously written, virtuosic weaving of time, place and characters connected in profound ways

American Warlord is required reading for human rights advocates, even if it occasionally tumbles into laborious minutiae, writes reviewer Michael Fraiman

A new memoir details one man’s decision to leave an ultra-conservative strain of Hasidic Judaism for the modern world

Brian Bethune talks to the vice-regal consort about her first novel, Matrons and Madams

There is no surefire way to be rid of the scourge of bed bugs; there’s a reason we use the term ‘pest control’ and not ‘pest annihilation’

Rowling’s latest—a slim transcription of a speech she gave at Harvard—reminds us of her own spellbinding post-Potter story

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Patricia Treble on a hilarious, perceptive gem from the creators of the Go Fug Yourself website that doesn’t merely retell Kate and William’s story

In his book, Hanson asks us to consider something as seemingly mundane as seeds for the complex marvel that it is

There are no heroes in Lehane’s universe: The good guys are usually merely trying to make the best choice from an array of horrible options.