Chef

Jaspreet Singh's tale of a former military chef who returns to Kashmir to cook a wedding meal for a general's daughter—and make peace with his past—is the the most mesmerizing novel I've read this spring (it also has the loveliest cover).

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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