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So many books have inspired British costume dramas and this quiz gives you a chance to show how many you recognize.
Inspired by the historical figure known as Lambert Simnel, THE PRETENDER (Knopf, 471 pp., $30) is a rollicking account of a ...
“The Golden Bowl” is about two couples. One is made up of an Italian prince who marries an American woman named Maggie, the ...
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq has won the 2025 International Booker prize. Here, our literature experts review the book and the ...
Private investigator Holly Gibney returns in King’s “Never Flinch,” and the story will keep you turning pages well past ...
Now, writing in English, he has delivered an astounding novel that is at once an important exploration of language and identity, and an addictively entertaining family saga." Khemiri added ...
He saw ‘Lord of the World’ (1907) as an ‘antidote’ to ‘worldly totalitarianism.’ ...
For more than a decade, Kazuo Ishiguro had a box file in his study marked “Students Novel”. In it were notes ... a mysterious boarding school in the English countryside with kind teachers ...
Do you ever have to call or email people you don't know at work? In this episode of Office English, Pippa and Phil talk about cold calling and building relationships with new people at work.
INCHEON, South Korea — A shoe-based biomechanical intervention worn for a short time each day may achieve greater improvements in low back pain and greater reductions in the risk for total knee ...
To hide it, she nestled Blume’s controversial novel — about first love and sex — inside another, more family-friendly, paperback. “If anybody came by, you’d switch,” she said ...