Born in Wales 100 years ago, actress Peggy Cummins is best remembered for her turn as the gun-toting bank robber in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy. But that same year, British critics preferred her starring ...

Queen Camilla has a new title. The royal appears in “The Hawk is Dead” by one of her favorite authors — bestselling writer Peter James — as part of his popular Detective Superintendent Roy Grace ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

Many realist novelists write to comment on the now. In practice, that means writing the near future so that it might be the near past when the book finally comes out. However, when things go to shit ...

In today’s world of streaming platforms and concert spectacles, it can be easy to think of music solely from a numbers perspective. Shows have become bigger and more complex, while songs generate more ...

Ditlevsen is often called the great national poet of Denmark and is well known in Europe, but you don’t hear her discussed in the U.S. as much as she should be. Why is that? I think in America we tend ...

The director of the National Gallery of Ireland on her love of the Florentine Renaissance and the contemplation of beautiful things. By New Statesman Caroline Campbell was born in Belfast in 1973. A ...

Mike Gold sometimes erased the line between ardent social advocacy and just being a bullvan. The subject of a new anthology of his writings from SUNY Press, Gold was the author of the ...

Persephone Books founder Nicola Beauman talks about the publisher’s evolution from a dark basement in central London to its current HQ in Bath. "Take Marghanita Laski. She’s a fantastic writer. Her ...

The saga of the French author Colette, who wrote the novella Gigi and whose life inspired a 2018 film starring Keira Knightley, continues to fascinate readers eager to debate her conduct during the ...

One snowy morning in January 2003, the French writer Anne Berest’s mother, Lélia Picabia, received a postcard in the mail. It was an ordinary tourist’s postcard, with an image of the Opera Garnier on ...

“The Postcard,” a novel by the French author Anne Berest, opens on a snowy morning in a Parisian suburb: “My mother lit her first lung-charring cigarette of the morning, the one she enjoyed most, and ...