“Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” is a short memoir recounting the immediate aftermath of the 2022 attack ...

Michael Finkel has reported from over 50 countries, and has written several best-selling books, and countless articles in major publications. His newest book is The Art Thief, about Stefan ...

1 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a ...

237 weeks on the list The author of “The Stranger in the Woods” tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art more than 200 times for the sake of admiring it. A memoir by the ...

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Our columnists on new books by John Banville ... “The Price of Power,” by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means ...

Cheshire native Justin Finkel picked up swimming when he was 8 years old. "I've always loved the water even before I started swimming competitively," said Finkel, who competes in multiple events ...

A spellbinding writer, Ondaatje exhibits a poet's sensibility and... Michael Ondaatje, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-307-94371-2 It only adds ...

1 THE ART THIEF (Vintage, $18). By Michael Finkel. Over 300 art objects were stolen by one man who kept them in a secret room. 2 THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES (Knopf, $35). By Amy Tan. The best ...

4. The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.) (Riverhead Books: $30) The Nobel Prize winner sets her latest novel in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I. 5. Tell Me ...