Jones’s roaring debut novel, first published in 1983, is a tour of the bad ol’ days of New York City and Detroit, with a ...

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Why should you take an interest in this particular railway journey?” the narrator of Emma Donoghue’s new novel asks the ...

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A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life story to his fiction.

We all know it’s no easy feat being a student – long hours of poring over books, not to mention the hundreds of essays to churn out. Here are some idioms to remind you why it’s all worth it ...