The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark.

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

Percival Everett’s novel, James, is the best I’ve read in years, and I almost didn’t read it because its first 5 pages are printed ...

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Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

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On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

The League of Women Voters Whitewater Area’s Book Club is hosting the first of three discussions of the book “James: A Novel,” by Percival Everett, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, starting ...

With Rachel Brosnahan joining James Gunn‘s new cinematic DCU, she’s optimistic for some truth, justice and the American way. The 2x Critics Choice Television Awards winner teased Deadline at ...

Jordan Finn, Jenna Schatzman (Austin Neave), Jacob Schatzman, and James Finn Kincaid; and great-grandchildren, Zoey, Hallie, and Damien Finn, Joshua and Dean Finn, and Lotus and Arlo Neave. She is ...