Fans of murder mysteries will tell you the fun in reading them is in direct proportion to the intensity unraveling on the pages. With the fast pace and shocking twists, you’ll be flipping pages and ...

Professor Aldrin Gomes studies how painkillers such as ibuprofen affect the cardiovascular system. Now Gomes and 36 current and former students have published a book on the good, bad and unexpected ...

Houellebecq’s flat style mimics his subjects’ lack of commitment and SSRI-dulled inner lives so closely that he achieves Orwell’s “good bad” mix. Especially in his graphically bland sex scenes, which ...

They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The internet disagrees! Some cover designs are so terrible, so ridiculously nonsensical, that they’re actually entertaining. It’s any person with ...

An illustration from an edition of Don Quixote where the eponymous protagonist goes mad from reading. Wikimedia, CC BY Books as a backdrop in a portrait or an interview lend gravitas. They stand for ...

A concerned mom in Sharyn Rothstein’s Bad Books raises a hell of a ruckus over a library book she deems obscene, but, in truth, neither her ensuing crusade nor Rothstein’s juicily enjoyable play are ...

Long before Taylor Swift may or may not have folded herself into a suitcase to avoid the paparazzi, Luke Perry hid in a laundry hamper to avoid a frenzied mob of teenage girls in a mall department ...

Trigger warning for any daughter who has ever had a fraught relationship with their mother: Gish Jen’s remarkable and heartbreaking latest book, “Bad Bad Girl,” may prompt a flood of feelings not felt ...

These women met in an online book club. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving. These women met in an online book club. They traveled to a remote corner of ...

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Thank goodness for Holly Twyford and Kate Eastwood Norris. D.C. has been spoiled in recent months with back-to-back double bills starring the long-reigning MVPs of area stages. They were excellent ...