French Lessons

French moviemakers excel at producing a certain kind of light, wistful, erotic saga of folly and longing. Now Ellen Sussman delivers an English-language prose equivalent with her tale of three Americans and their corresponding native guides in the City of Light, walking the tightrope of desire and caution, abandon and respectability.

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…

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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