A Caribbean voice in science fiction
Science fiction gets a Caribbean perspective in Barbados-based Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds.
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Robert Caro wins $50,000 history prize
Robert Caro has won yet another literary prize, this one worth $50,000.
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Book news
Stephenie Meyer, ‘Twilight’ author, comes to Books & Books
She’s one of the most popular authors on the planet — and she’s coming to Miami.
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Stories
Jess Walter portrays broken men in ‘We Live in Water’
The men in Jess Walter’s clever and surprising tales are hapless, bitter and foolish
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Fiction
Change comes to the Earl’s estate
This page-turner focuses on the Dilbernes of London and their servants in 1899.
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History
In Vietnam, slaughter as official policy
The author interviewed more than 100 veterans, alongside those of eyewitnesses and survivors of American atrocities in Vietnam.
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Fiction
Nuclear threats and a missing husband
Manil Suri’s third novel in a loose trilogy carries the reader on a wild trip through Mumbai.
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What are you reading now?
“I love books about music and the lives of musicians. Right now I’m reading the Neil Young autobiography Waging Heavy Peace. I just saw him live at Madison Square Garden with Patti Smith, and he was great!”
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Nonfiction
On the brink of losing evolutionary link
Poaching and lost habitats may kill all our great apes in the next century.
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History
Courtship of two cunning politicians
The ups and downs of White House partners Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.
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Books
Author Karen Russell, who grew up in South Florida, delivers stories with a bite
Karen Russell, who grew up in South Florida, sinks her teeth into the surreal — but fleshes out her work with emotion, too.
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Stories
Karen Russell follows ‘Swamplandia!’ with an imaginative set of stories
Karen Russell’s imagination runs wild in this collection of bizarre and fantastical stories
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Nonfiction
What are the odds?
The author presents practical lessons of statistics in an engaging manner.
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Memoir
Barfly’s quest for the perfect haunt
Rosie Schaap finds safe haven — and friends — on both sides of the bar.
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What are you reading now?
“Watching the Dark, the new Peter Robinson. Next up on the bedside table: Elly Griffith’s The House at Sea’s End and Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.”
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Suspense
Gardner’s latest touches a nerve
Lisa Gardner, the master of the psychological thriller, has delivered another tour de force with Touch & Go, which exposes the raw nerves of a family imploding and an investigator trying to escape her past.
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Fiction
Sisters pirouette into life of misery
The author models her 19th century subjects after Edgar Degas’ famous ballerina statuette.
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Miami Beach
Group preserves home of ‘Danny & the Dinosaur’ author
To the late cartoonist Syd Hoff, humor was what mattered.
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In Miami-Dade and Broward, closing of big bookstores means loss of community, book lovers say
The closing of several big chain bookstores has left a wide geographical void in south Broward and northern Miami-Dade counties. Bereft booklovers say e-books and Amazon can’t replace paper or the community experience of bricks-and-mortar stores.
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Autism
Helping others thrive despite autism
To understand why Temple Grandin is an icon, it’s not enough to read her books or watch the Emmy Award-winning movie about how she overcame the challenges of autism.
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Fiction
Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘See Now Then’ examines a marriage
Jamaica Kincaid tells an ominous tale of a family in a distinctly nonlinear fashion
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Graphic novels
Zombies, teen angst and more in latest graphic novels
The New Deadwardians. Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard. Vertigo. 176 pages. $14.99.
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THE ARTS
Lectures will prelude opening of ‘King Lear’ at University of Miami
Works of The Bard will be explored in a series of lectures at the University of Miami as a prelude to the opening of the university’s production of “King Lear.”
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Nonfiction
Scientology’s weirdness and wizardry
Lawrence Wright attempts to penetrate a secretive and tightly controlled sect.
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Mystery
Tim Dorsey’s serial killer Serge is back
While a mystery’s twists and turns will keep readers turning the pages until the wee hours of the night, the characters are what make readers return, novel after novel.
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Nonfiction
He’d walk across coals for inspiration
Bill Streever’s companion book to ‘Cold,’ is entertaining and informative.
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What are you reading now?
“I just finished volume one of SAGA, a comic that is science fiction, space opera, and interspecies love story, all of it narrated by a baby. Illustrated with style and swagger by Fiona Staples and written by Brian K. Vaughn, one of the best storytellers working in any medium today.”
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10 finalists named for international Booker prize
American author Marilynne Robinson, Israel’s Aharon Appelfeld and China’s Yan Lianke are among 10 finalists announced Thursday for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
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Nonfiction
Hard look at Haiti
Veteran journalist blends history and personal experience in her observations on a land beset by tragedy.
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Fantasy
Trouble and toil for Rachel
In a continuation of the Hollows series, there’s a little matter of the big hole in the Ever After.
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Books
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to address UM community
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks to students and Coral Gables residents about her new book, “My Beloved World” with University of Miami president Donna Shalala.
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AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
TV’s Dick Wolf turns to the page
The creator of ‘Law & Order’ is out with ‘The Intercept,’ a novel about a New York City cop and a terrorist threat.
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Memoir
From the Bronx to the Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor traces her journey from a housing project to one of the most powerful positions in America.
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Books
Coral Gables author has the 411 on packing in new book
Friends called Susan George a whiz at packing for travel. So she wrote a book she calls How to Pack (With Style) so that everyone can become an expert.
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Fiction
End of the line
Thomas Sanchez revisits Key West in a tale of corruption, greed and eco-disasters
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Stories
An expert covers rich terrain
Short-story master Ron Hansen writes skillfully about historical and modern times.
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What are you reading now?
“I was on vacation in Mexico a couple of weeks ago, in the calm before the storm of book tour, in a secluded pueblo with my family, and Bill Simmons’ The Book of Basketball was on the shelf. It absorbed my entire vacation. He redefined modern sportswriting, with that frenzied, argumentative style. . . . I read the whole thing in the week that followed while I was lying on the beach.”
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Nonfiction
Suffering and starvation in Ireland
Two authors delve into the economics and politics of the 1840s Potato Famine.
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