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Game of Thrones ended this year with season 8, concluding what will be the main narrative points of George RR Martin’s unwritten A Dream of Spring – the last book in A Song of Ice and Fire. However, the final episodes divided fans with many thinking the ending was rushed. Now Jaime Lannister star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau […]
Faith and Reasons To the Editor: In his review of Karen Armstrong’s “The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts” (Dec. 1), Nicholas Kristof includes a quote from Armstrong: “Because its creation myths do not concur with recent scientific discoveries, militant atheists have condemned the Bible as a pack of lies, while Christian fundamentalists […]
ONE1847: THE VISITOR A week before Christmas 1846. A world-famous composer comes unannounced to his sister’s house in Berlin. She is expecting him. Sister and brother are so close they anticipate each other’s thoughts. Fanny Hensel, plump and dark-eyed, rushes to the door and hugs her younger brother, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Hand in hand, they […]
ALICE ADAMSPortrait of a WriterBy Carol Sklenicka By Blake Bailey An admiring colleague said of the writer Alice Adams that she “threw a different kind of light on women and what they want, or think they want.” In one of Adams’s late stories, “Old Love Affairs” — published in The New Yorker less than four […]
Why STOLEN diamonds are a girl’s best friend: Woman who used crime to fund her glamorous lifestyle reveals how she distracted shopkeepers while stealing jewels from luxurious stores Doris Payne recounts the crimes she committed to live a glamorous life Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she posed as a wealthy lady to steal riches Growing […]
Vanessa Riley has made a name for herself with her historical romances blooming with careful research that reflects a more accurate and diverse portrait of the Regency era. Now, with A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby, Riley is making her print debut. EW debuts the cover for the novel, which hits shelves in July, below. […]
Female Types and Tropes To the Editor: Leslie Jamison’s fascinating essay “The Cult of the Literary Sad Woman” (Nov. 17) highlighted a longstanding modern type of female character. One could say that the earlier “damsel in distress” might be a fitting forerunner. I agree with much of Jamison’s analysis, but her argument might have been […]
PRESIDENTS OF WAR, by Michael Beschloss. (B/D/W/Y, $20.) This sweeping look at presidents who led the United States through military conflict opens with a reluctant James Madison during the War of 1812 and closes with Lyndon Johnson facing defeat in Vietnam. Our reviewer, Jay Winik, called it “a superb and important book.” SOLITARY: Unbroken by […]
First there was Robert Musil the mechanical engineer, who invented a chroma meter, a device for evaluating color. Then there was Musil the philosophical scientist, interested in probability theory and logical positivism, as well as in the workings of the mind and the soul. Neither Musil seems a likely candidate for the role of novelist, […]
There’s not much we can thank the Trump-Brexit Axis of Idiocy for, but it did play a role in Declan Burke getting his mojo back. We begin in 2015. Reluctant to start another novel after 2014’s The Lost and The Blind (“which I didn’t enjoy writing”), the crime writer and journalist finds himself falling a […]