Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess

Book Review

Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess

By Ben Mezrich

The game’s fighters extend far beyond queens and rooks.

Behold the Bird in Flight

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Behold the Bird in Flight

By Terri Lewis

A young girl’s impetuous decision alters the course of her life.

Book Review

The Globe

By James Hannam

The Globe

Our fascinating journey toward a spherical world.

Book Review

The Enchanters

By James Ellroy

The Enchanters

This over-the-top potboiler may be too much for all but the author’s diehard fans.

Book Review

The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies

Though spare, these trenchant musings are rendered expansively.

Essay

An Origin (Short) Story

By Evan Pellervo

An Origin (Short) Story

How my upbeat debut collection came to be.

Book Review

The Mighty Red: A Novel

By Louise Erdrich

The Mighty Red: A Novel

Upheaval comes fast — and resolves too soon — in the lauded storyteller’s latest tale.

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The Haunted Screen: A Novella

A frustrated writer is being tailed by a spectral woman. Or is he?

Podcast

Authors on Audio: Brody Mullins

An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.

Book Review

Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast

A queer Black writer untangles her culture’s complex threads.