Sister

In Rosamund Lupton's chilling debut, a woman investigates the suspicious suicide of her sister in a narrative that recalls the wicked charms of both Patricia Highsmith and Kate Atkinson. As family secrets are unearthed, characters transform before our eyes with each new revelation.

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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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