Books

May 17 2013 - 12:00pm

Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel's tale of Anne Boleyn, arrives on the paperback list at No. 9.

May 17 2013 - 8:43am

Also: AARP and The Nation join a growing list of ebook publishers; Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; Anne Applebaum on Sheryl Sandberg.

May 16 2013 - 7:43am

Also: Afaa Michael Weaver on being a black poet abroad; ebook sales jumped 44 percent last year; Cormac McCarthy's beach body.

May 16 2013 - 7:00am

A dirty deed and official cover-up drive the plot in John le Carre's A Delicate Truth. The novel sets its sights on old-boy corruption and corporate criminality at the heart of the "Deep State," but critic Alan Cheuse finds this latest effort lacks the tension of le Carre's Cold War novels.

May 15 2013 - 11:36am

Tomorrow Governor O'Malley will sign into law new restrictions on guns in Maryland. We talk to the woman leading a referendum drive against the bill and to a researcher who studies gun laws across the country.Tom Hall talks to the winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr prize, the largest undergr...

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May 15 2013 - 11:00am

The new book from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a knockout of a novel about immigration that transcends genre. It's everything from a coming-of-age novel to a romance to a comic novel of social manners to an up-to-the-minute meditation on race.

May 15 2013 - 7:16am

Also: George Orwell's rules for making tea; what Antigone can teach us about the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

May 15 2013 - 7:00am

After six years, author Walter Mosley breathes life back into his detective hero Easy Rawlins — thought dead after crashing his car off a cliff. Easy embarks on another case, but as the lines blur between death and dying, he may discover answers to questions he hadn't thought to ask.

May 14 2013 - 11:40am

May 15, 2013Last night at the Enoch Pratt Central Library in Baltimore, Washington College announced the winner of the Sophie Kerr prize. At $61,000, it's the largest undergraduate literary award in the country.Tom Hall was there, and he talked to the winner: Tim Marcin, an English major and soccer ...

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May 14 2013 - 9:27am

The remarkable life of Baltimore-raised entertainer Cab Calloway, with his daughter Camay Calloway Murphy, founder of the Cab Calloway Jazz Institute and Museum at Coppin State University; her son, Christopher Calloway Brooks, director of the Cab Calloway Orchestra; and Alyn Shipton, ...

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