[ad_1] Donald Newlove, a recovered alcoholic who wrote acclaimed and brutally sentimental novels and a memoir, all with a common theme – drunkenness – as well as cheeky primer on reading and writing, died August 17 in Bethesda , in Maryland. He was 93 years old. The cause was complicationsRead More →
[ad_1] On the bookshelf All the Troubles Frequent Today: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Rebecca DonnerSmall, brown: 576 pages, $ 32 If you purchase related books from our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whoseRead More →
[ad_1] PARIS – There is a scene in Laurent Binet’s latest novel, “Civilizations”, where a meeting between conqueror and conquered comes to life in the vivid description of a painting by the Renaissance painter Titian. It was an imaginary scenario – of the Incas from Peru invading 16th-century Europe, andRead More →
[ad_1] AMSTERDAM – Perhaps naively, Lale Gul thought she could go on living with the same people she had based her bestselling novel on: her strict Turkish-Dutch migrant family. But just weeks after the publication in February of her book – the autobiographical account of a young woman breaking withRead More →
[ad_1] The release of the new book by area crime novelist Julian Don Winslow – and the tour to promote it – has been postponed due to the increase in COVID-19 cases. “To ensure the safety of everyone – readers, booksellers, librarians – publication must be delayed,†Winslow said inRead More →
[ad_1] Left Bank Books welcomes first novelist Claire Luchette, who will discuss her highly anticipated debut novel, Agatha of Little Neon, on our Facebook Live page at 7 p.m. CT on August 11. Luchette will be in conversation with The Onion and Reductress contributor and author of The 2000s MadeRead More →
[ad_1] It has been over a century since the death of the sharp-tongued satirist Hagop Baronian. However, the literary works of the Ottoman Armenian journalist, playwright and humorist still offer readers a perspective on everyday life in 19th-century Istanbul. Publishing his first play at just 22 years old, Baronian’s worksRead More →