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Diversifying Bookshelves From Trend to Norm

IN THE WAKE of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, America woke up to find itself in the midst of a national reckoning over race. Calls for justice and dismantling white supremacy began to touch every aspect of American life—including the literary world.

Catania, Sicily

LAST OCTOBER, I chose to use Catania as a base for exploring the towns of southeastern Sicily I had yet to discover.

Why British Police Shows Are Better

When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime.

Love Thy Neighbor

Nextdoor the social network for local communities, has bet on kindness to power it to an IPO. If only the locals don't ruin it.

Reality TV Glows Up

Docuseries are television’s latest prestige offering, but they’re not so different from their trashier predecessors.

Meanwhile, in Another World

How a Nicole Kidman–Hugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.

A Guide To Streaming Services

Competition is growing. That’s giving you more choices—and a chance to save money.

WHEN BLOOD RUNS COLD

Why is spying often referred to as a game? There is nothing remotely diverting about it.

Sounds of Suspense

Audiobooks Reviewed

Very Original Paperback Originals

While Bailey Cates’s Witches and Wedding Cake(Berkley, $7.99) is the ninth in her Magical Bakery series, it was the first for me, and I appreciated that I could slide into the narrative effortlessly.

What About Murder?

Reference Books Reviewed

RAYMOND CHANDLER & THE BRASHER DOUBLOON

Sometime in 1960, a friend’s enthusiasm for coin collecting proved contagious, and I began sorting through pocket change and noting dates and mint marks.

Small Press

Reviewing the Independents

LOVE ON THE RUN

LOVE, BULLETS, AND THE OPEN ROAD. CRIMINAL COUPLES ON THE RUN ARE A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STAPLE—AND IT’S ALL DUE TO A PAIR OF DEPRESSION-ERA HELLRAISERS.

JENNY MILCHMAN

It’s that enticing-yet-elusive hook that often draws readers back to a writer’s work. Sometimes it’s characters that compel.

CAMILLA LÄCKBERG

Before Camilla Läckberg’s debut novel was published, the Swedish author devised an ambitious, yet workable marketing plan. Among other things, she would visit, if possible, every bookstore in the country to do book events, sign stock and meet and greet as many booksellers and readers as she could.

A MARY HIGGINS CLARK ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

It’s easiest to say she had magic. Anyone who has ever been in the room with Mary Higgins Clark understood there was some sort of aura around her, a force field of joy and delight, an authentic pleasure in being wherever she was. (If that wasn’t true, all the more brilliant. You would never have known it.)

Taylor Goes Minimalist

For the pop diva, folklore is uncharted territory.

Amy Seimetz's Mirror Worlds

In her new absurdist thriller, She Dies Tomorrow, the director-actress dares to think the unthinkable.

A Word on Seinfeld

The things you notice when you rewatch, rather than cancel, old sitcoms.

Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' delayed indefinitely by virus

Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which had hoped to herald Hollywood’s return to big theatrical releases, has yet again postponed its release due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Gronk's Winning Playlist

Football legend Rob Gronkowski, star of Game On!, shares his favorite tunes for summer

He Sees Dead People

The star of The Thomas John Experience communicates with spirits – and changes people’s lives.

Cool Catch Ups

Extra time on your hands this summer? Take a dive in or a step back into CBS’s catalogue of binge-able shows, which offer the thrills, chills, and laughs you just might be craving.

Michaela the DESTROYER

How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

AMC Pushes Back Movie Theater Reopening By 2 Weeks

AMC Theaters, the nation’s largest chain, is pushing back its plans to begin reopening theaters by two weeks following the closure because of COVID-19. The company said that it would open approximately 450 U.S. locations on July 30 and the remaining 150 the following week.

There Is Also This Civil War Inside of Me

A Conversation with Zisis Ainalis

Why Iranians Continue to Seek Refuge in Australia

Shokoofeh Azar moved to Australia as a political refugee in 2010. Her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (see WLT, Spring 2020, 96), originally written in Farsi, was shortlisted for Australia’s 2018 Stella Prize for Fiction and the 2020 International Booker Prize. Here she recalls her refugee journey from Iran to Christmas Island and reveals why Iranians continue migrating to Australia, despite the absence of war.

Not Pregnant

In this work of creative nonfiction from Cuba, plague is something common shared with those who lived in Thebes.

Quarantine Innovations

DURING A CRISIS, books provide solace and hope, offering comfort in the literary world.