An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

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For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Here’s a lot of the great, the good and the downright awful Australians who have represented the Blues in that time... Pompey paid West Ham £400,000 to land the Australian central defender in ...

The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads to cure seasonal blues to novels that transport you to warmer climes, the criteria for a good book is ...

But also, and I don’t like to look back, our results in La Liga, it’s not good. Of course ... point lead of their own slip away, with a dreadful run of just two wins in the league since ...

Here’s how it works. If you want to carry a personal library's worth of books to bed without hurt your back, good news: the best e-readers can carry all the books you'd care to read on a comfy ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Either way, it’s the bed that really makes it the vehicle of your dreams and most of us need a tonneau cover to make those dreams a reality. Unfortunately, one of the best things about a truck ...

He was having a very good match, so I was baffled when he was substituted. At the time, it made no sense, but we do operate a squad rotation policy and it will occasionally throw up surprises. I’ve ...