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Dick Adler, who reviews mysteries and thrillers for the Chicago Tribune , is writing Men’s Adventure , a crime-novel-in-installments, at The...

Eduardo Velásquez's A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish Nonetheless...

Tim Harford is the author of The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy a D...

N.M. Kelby is the author of Whale Season and other books. I recently asked her what she's been reading. Her reply: To ask what a perso...

William Landay is the author of the highly acclaimed Mission Flats , winner of the John Creasey Dagger as the best debut crime novel of 20...

Gary Krist, author of the forthcoming The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche , shared...

Kate Holden is the author of In My Skin: A Memoir of Addiction . I asked Kate to put her book to the " page 69 test ;" here is h...