It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...

The title refers to the new female embodiment aspired to by the main character Anjali Bose...

The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the...

The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...

Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...

A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...

There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...

If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...

Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...

Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...