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- Charles Dickens Tried to Banish His Wife to an Asylum, Letters Show
Newly published correspondence gives Catherine Dickens’s account of a great Victorian scandal. ... More - An Appraisal: Tomi Ungerer Transformed Darkness With Whimsy and Glee
The iconoclastic artist’s picture books comforted children and made adults uncomfortable. ... More - Graphic Content: Graphic Novels in the Age of Trump
In his latest Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at James Sturm’s “Off Season” and Elly Lonon and Joan Reilly’s “Amongst the Liberal Elite.” ... More - The Book Review Podcast: Seeking SilenceGal Beckerman discusses “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox; and Steve Luxenberg talks about “Separate.” ... More
- W.E.B. Griffin, 89, Dies; Best Selling Novelist Dozens of Times
He said he published more than 150 books — including dozens about soldiers, spies and cops — using numerous pseudonyms (including W.E.B. Griffin). ... More - A Samurai Rabbit Comic Book Adventure Finds a New HomeThe long-running saga of the rabbit, Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai, is moving to IDW Publishing, which will begin a new, full-color series in June. ... More
- Nonfiction: ‘Say Nothing’ — Part History, Part True Crime — Illuminates the Bitter Conflict in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe’s stunning new book uses the 1972 murder and abduction of a Belfast mother of 10 to tell the story of the Troubles. ... More - New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’Six new paperbacks to check out this week. ... More
- Inside the List: The ‘Columbine’ Author Dave Cullen Talks About His New Book, ‘Parkland’Soon after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Cullen realized there was something different about this tragedy. He got on a plane to Florida. ... More
- Match Book: Books at the Box OfficeNonfiction titles that made a splash on both the page and the big screen. ... More
- Sketchbook: Was the True Hero of ‘Peter Pan’ the Dog?
Sara Lautman draws a tribute to the Darling family’s loyal pet and caretaker, Nana. ... More - Fiction: Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots.
The title characters of Amy Feltman’s “Willa & Hesper” find solace from their breakup in the rabbit holes of their European Jewish backgrounds. ... More - Nonfiction: The Series of Historical Mistakes That Led to Trump
Michael Tomasky’s “If We Can Keep It” recounts the political and cultural back story to our current, destabilized moment. ... More - Otherworldly: Sublime New Fantasy Fiction
An epic debut, poems as sharp as blood-tinged spindles, a stand-alone novel narrated by a god: There’s something for everyone here. ... More - Children’s Books: Y.A. Thrillers That Put Teenagers to the TestAn emotionless world where feelings are a commodity. A murderer pursuing a homecoming queen. And more, in novels from Karen M. McManus, E.K. Johnston, Lamar Giles and S.E. Grove. ... More