Books
Lost people, spaces and places: The 2022 crime novel
April 12, 2022One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon.
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‘Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson’ back in print
March 18, 2022Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson has just been reissued in a new paperback edition.
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Novelist Thomas Mann gets a novel treatment in Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Magician’
January 24, 2022Tóibín creates the world of Mann very well and does justice to his times.
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Three important books on race in America for deep winter reading
January 10, 2022Let’s consider a trio of books that can be helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of racism, both its practice and its ideological components, including in the current period.
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‘The Red Raven’: A quartet of crime fiction novels ends in AIDS-era L.A.
December 27, 2021The literary world has lost an important voice that spoke not just to the LGBTQ community but to any reader who loves a good crime story with a redemptive ending. Steve Johnson’s work survives him.
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