A Novel Bookstore

This French literary thriller by Laurence Cossé (translated by Alison Anderson) chronicles the unexpected dangers that surface when a bookseller and an heiress open a Parisian bookshop stocked only with masterpieces, as chosen by a secret committee. Replete with an intoxicating stream of reading suggestions.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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