To many U.S. readers this book will be their first exposure to one ... Sebastian’s sister, Julia, was like a “Renaissance tragedy. . . . Dogs and children love her . . . my dear, she’s ...

It is possible to trace the story of humanity through the metal that we have extracted from the Earth's surface.

To give that wan truism the flush of a bold truth, Novelist Buechner’s drawing-room tragedy would have to glow with forthright eloquence; it shimmers with frosty, neo-Jamesian elegance instead.

The book was launched on Dec ... “It affected me as deeply as any tragedy I had even heard of. As poets often do, you feel you should respond in some way, as was also the case after the Emanuel ...

Sherman’s story was marred by tragedy. Born in 1911 to an absentee ... How all of this came to be is the topic of Brown’s deeply moving book, which, a bit like Sherman herself, freely wanders ...

A fictionalized account based on true events, the novel follows the lives of six characters whose worlds are upended by tragedy ... she self-published her book. Though she had self-published ...

Darth Plagueis is one of my new favorite Star Wars books. First name-dropped in Revenge of the Sith, when Sheev Palpatine regales Anakin with the Dark Lord’s “tragedy,” Plagueis’ story was ...