In Lower Manhattan, a salt-sprayed cocktail bar pays homage to the 175-year-old white whale of American literature. So does its book club. By Sadie Stein Our columnist on three excellent new books. By ...

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British writer Agatha Christie is widely hailed as the greatest mystery writer of all time, having published over 130 pieces, including 74 classic novels and 66 detective stories. Beginning her ...

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The superego, which has all too easily passed into ordinary language as the secular equivalent of the conscience, has had a rather chequered career as both an idea and as one of the main ‘characters’ ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright’s new book, ‘Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,’ offers “an appeal to conscience” for seven women inmates on death row in Texas.