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Max Wallis © Hayley Madden for the Poetry Society, Free Verse Poetry Magazine and Book Fair 2025Prize-winning poet and journalist…

Twain had a striking look from the time he was young. In early photographs, he can resemble Billy the Kid,…

Leamer is undeniably excellent at setting a scene, especially a louche one. He knows just when to have someone wonder…

EMPTY VESSEL: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge, by Ian KumekawaContainer ships are designed to be blandly…

But Summerscale gives equal time to Christie’s unfortunate victims, treating them as real people rather than pawns in someone else’s…

GULF, by Mo OgrodnikFive women from different countries and social classes find themselves living in and around the Arabian Peninsula…

THE DAZZLING PAGET SISTERS: The English Twins Who Captivated Literary Europe, by Ariane BankesMove over, Véra. See ya, Zelda. Make…

THE DESERTERS, by Mathias Énard; translated by Charlotte MandellMathias Énard’s latest novel, “The Deserters,” conjures its layered melancholy from a…

I will not do Shepherd the disservice of saying she was more approachable to me simply because she is a…

In 1984, the artist and editor (and John Baldessari protégée) Kim Hastreiter co-founded Paper Magazine with her friend David Hershkovits,…