A Discovey of Witches

The ivory tower blushes bright red in Deborah Harkness's addictively readable debut novel, in which daemons, witches, and vampires ancient and modern descend upon Oxford's Bodleian Library when a bewitched alchemical manuscript is discovered. Smart, vivid fun.

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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