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Memphis’s Scorpion is the latest special police unit to come under scrutiny.

In 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris,' McCarthy introduces Bobby and Alicia Western, whose exploits are more compelling than their names.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

“Trust,” by Hernan Diaz, examines the human costs of wealth in a novel that keeps revising itself.

In Yoknapatawpha County, the past never speaks with a single voice.

Faulkner’s Southern twist on Joycean modernism has made for popular reading in the wake of the U.S. Capitol insurrection and other spasms of red-state rage.

Neither a pandemic nor a freak accident could stop Columbus readers from getting their hands on a book.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Think the comic book giant invented the concept of an extended universe? Think again: interconnected storytelling is a literary tradition centuries in the making. 

Elizabeth Spencer, arguably one of our country’s greatest writers, died in December 2019 in Chapel Hill, where she had lived since 1986.