There was no traffic along Ardmore Road, but Sarah Rabinowitz carefully signaled the turn onto Cornus Plaza, slowed and double-checked to make sure Irving Clurman

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From Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon thriller to a V.I. Warshowski mystery by Sara Paretsky, there is plenty of good fiction to engage you. Satisfyingly,

Revisiting Anne Frank, for Better or for Worse By Sanford Pinsker Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary made her a subject of adoration—and of controversy. Just as

The Free World: A Novel by David Bezmozgis. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 356 pp. $26) In 1980, when David Bezmozgis was 7, he and his family

In addition to the ever-popular crime writers Faye Kellerman and Daniel Silva, there are a number of authors not usually known for whodunits with some

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