The Complaints

Although he retired Inspector Rebus, one of the most captivating figures in crime fiction, in 2007's Exit Music, Ian Rankin has been unable to keep himself off the mean streets of Edinburgh. Here, in his second novel featuring Malcolm Fox, a cop who investigates other cops, he holds readers riveted with his usual combination of mystery and moral query

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

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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