The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
Dragons Love Tacos Summary Among all the picture books ever created, this is among my favorites! FOR WHAT ENDANG? It features tacos and cute, humorous dragons—not the menacing type. Nobody…
Perusing devotees realize there's not at all like at long last getting your hands on (or getting a Libby warning for) a book you've been holding up months (or years)…
NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY Essays By Alexandra Petri We all have that one friend who has the rare ability to make us laugh, not just over cocktails or…
The most important thing to know about William Shivering’s THIEVES OF WEIRDWOOD (Holt, 338 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 12) is that it will delight and satiate those besotted with…
THE LION’S DENBy Katherine St. John353 pp. Grand Central. $28. Image “The Lion’s Den” is classic escapist reading, in every sense of the word. On the one hand, the story whisks pasty,…
As summer approaches, we are longing for normalcy, a return to the sweaty June, July and August habits of our past lives in the city — things we maybe took…
ALTERNATE ENDING From Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” to Monica Ali’s “Untold Story,” veteran novelists have long tinkered with real-life events. (Roth imagines Charles Lindbergh as president; Ali imagines…
Plans, like time, have proved remarkably elastic during this pandemic, and books I’d intended to discuss here have been delayed half a season or more, while books I didn’t cover…
In the summer of 2015, I was supposed to be at work on Drifts, a book I had been under contract for almost as long as I had lived in…
Origin of a Genocide To the Editor: Steven Zipperstein’s May 3 review of “Europe Against the Jews,” by Gotz Aly, which attempts to explain the origins of the Holocaust as largely the…
In few areas of human activity is there such a discrepancy between perception and reality as there is with war. There tends to be a huge difference between what people…
