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Luis Jaramillo's "The Witches of El Paso" mixes elements of magic, family legacy, and historical fiction. His tales bring the ...

In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.

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Amazon's "Best Books of the Year" list is here. The Top 10 for 2024 include dark thrillers, American classic retellings and ...

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ – about a single day in space – has scooped this year’s prize, but Martin Chilton is sceptical ...

When the Parsons let an unexpected guest – and his frozen chicken – into their home, it began a remarkable story of ...

This week, the hit science fiction series Silo returns on Apple TV+. Based on the book series by Hugh Howey, Silo tells the ...

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A Sebastopol writer speculates on what the famous TV chef might have been doing as an agent with the OSS during World War II ...

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Lost in time but rooted in truth ... our curated selection of the best historical fiction will transport you across centuries while illuminating the timeless threads of human experience that connect ...