“I’m interested in how deceptions can make you feel more of yourself or can unlock something in you that you didn’t know you had.”  Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, is back with Birnam Wood —part eco-thriller, part social and political satire, wholly insightful. This propulsive novel is prescient, timely, and all-too relatable […]

When you’re a book nerd, the challenge of loving a TV show is finding books that will hit the same sweet spot while you wait for the next season to come along. That’s where we come in: if you’re a fan of any of these 10 new or returning shows, and need something to tide you over between seasons (or between […]

Greetings, gumshoes! March may have gone out like a lamb, but April’s new crop of mysteries is roaring in. From a gritty retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth by the peerless Jo Nesbø, to the story of a long-lost daughter whose sudden reappearance brings nothing but trouble, this month’s crop of whodunits is ready to surprise you […]

Hail the hirsute, usher in the unshaven, and salute the stubble, for the month of mustaches is upon us. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you may have noticed that every November, men are suddenly hairier. Whether they’re sporting a sprinkling of whiskers or lustrous locks along their lip line, men have been shirking their […]

Books about witches are great every day of the year. I will happily read about witches on Christmas Day, Memorial Day, and every day in between. But around Halloween, I, and everyone else in the universe, really start craving a good witch—by which I mean a bad witch. Not every witch is a bad witch. Being able to cast […]