Isn’t Lemony Snicket for kids?
Children in my neighborhood were constantly being orphaned. You go out one afternoon to play, and bam! Your parents are dead in a car accident and you are forced to...
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A Man Booker preview
Some literary awards are like Christmas presents. They simply appear under the tree. We're all thrilled by the surprise — or in the case of the 2012 Pulitzer for fiction,...
A Man Booker preview
Some literary awards are like Christmas presents. They simply appear under the tree. We're all thrilled by the surprise — or in the case of the 2012 Pulitzer for fiction,...
Five great audiobook performances
It takes a certain kind of genius to create a century full of characters — including an unforgettable Thomas Cromwell and an impetuous Henry VIII — and give each a...
Five great audiobook performances
It takes a certain kind of genius to create a century full of characters — including an unforgettable Thomas Cromwell and an impetuous Henry VIII — and give each a...
Audiobooks: Are they really the same as reading?
It was Ron Silver. That voice, with its slight rasp and its tendency to drop at the end of a passage, as though the actor cradled disappointment tightly against his...
Audiobooks: Are they really the same as reading?
It was Ron Silver. That voice, with its slight rasp and its tendency to drop at the end of a passage, as though the actor cradled disappointment tightly against his...