In “Stalking Shakespeare,” Lee Durkee describes his quest to find a true, authentic image of the famous playwright, a search that becomes a tragicomic tale in its own right.
There have been several major English translations of Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century classic. Motoko Rich, The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief, discusses how she approached them.
In Gavriel Savit’s new fantasy, set at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, an orphan girl who performs sham séances finds she may have true powers after all.
“Over the years,” says the historical novelist, whose new book is “The Trackers,” “I’ve come to realize that many great books we were assigned to read in school are far more enjoyable and have more to say when approached later in life.”
This poem operates by a kind of fairy logic: mesmerizing, oneiric, enchanted, with language that surprises and clauses that seem to magnetically adhere.
In one of many jobs she held in a diverse journalism career, she dealt with charges that the network was “serving as right-wing apologists for waterboarding.”
She was well into her career as a prolific author of historical crime fiction when a murderous past was publicly revealed and dramatized in a 1994 movie.
