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Storytelling is one of humanity's great luxuries, and you're likely to find no contemporary novel in which the storytelling is more luxurious than Michael Crummey's mythic novel of real and supernatural doings in a 19th-century Newfoundland fishing village. The award-winning fiction's characters and narrative ingenuity evoke Bible tales, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and—well, all the best rewards of being lost in a book.

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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