A rare painting of The Beatles by the late John Byrne has sold for £27,700 at auction, almost double its original estimate. In the painting, created in 1969, Byrne represented each Beatle seated ...

“I See You’ve Called in Dead” follows a middle-aged depressive who rediscovers life’s joys, with a little help from his friends. Steve Oney’s engaging and deeply reported “On Air ...

Natalie Lawrence uncovers fascinating other-worldly natural history, creatures that embody our anxieties and our irrational ...

If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

In Ariel Courage’s novel, “Bad Nature,” a powerful career woman sets out on a road trip intending to kill her father. By Alissa Nutting Alex Dimitrov’s fifth collection, “Ecstasy ...

With his first book since winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2021, Burnah focuses on three young people — an ambitious college student returning home, his female friend looking for a way ...

March 19, 2025 • Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in ...

like the title on a frontispiece. Dean came away from her overnight stay at the Menil with a whole book of drawings, some more personal than others. “Copying his words, his handwriting ...

Later the old Dean of Guild Hall was turned into two prison houses for prisoners of note and distinction. Upon the frontispiece of this building is His Majesty's arms, finely cut out, with a fine dial ...

Following the three characters through fifty years of romance, heartbreak, friendship, and forgiveness, this novel is an ode to love in all its forms. “I promise you it’s the kind of book you won't ...