In “Capturing Kahanamoku,” the historian Michael Rossi argues that an ugly pseudoscientific movement had its roots in a ...

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Kukula Award winner Christoph Irmscher discusses the craft of professional criticism, and why book reviews remain vital to ...

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at ...

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Initially, Marisa Silver’s resonant novel “At Last” looks to be the chronicle of two strong-minded widows, Helene Simonauer and Evelyn Turner, who meet the day before their children’s wedding—and take ...

It all happens so fast. Seems like 20 minutes after something occurs, another event takes its place; even this morning’s news already has dust on it. It feels like a race you didn’t enter, in a world ...

New releases this week include a feminist history of modern Russia, and a candid portrait of Gish Jen's relationship with her ...

Stephen King, as multiple major adaptations of his work have dominated theaters. Projects like The Monkey, The Life of Chuck, and The Long Walk have all been released to significant critical acclaim, ...

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