The 10 best works of historical fiction in 2024
Historical novels are a perfect combination of escapism and enrichment. Through these works of fiction, readers can learn ...
The Post’s travel section earns top honors in the 2024 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards
We are thrilled to announce The Post’s travel section has won multiple honors in the 2024 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism ...
Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, celebrity writers whose friendship soured
Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...
Jim Thompson is the perfect novelist for our crazed times
“The Killer Inside Me,” published in 1952, is his best-known novel. Its narrator is Lou Ford, a 29-year-old Texas sheriff who pretends to be a bland and boring rube but ends up committing every murder ...
Haruki Murakami repeats himself (on purpose) in his new novel
The City and Its Uncertain Walls” is set in a magical place that figured heavily in an earlier work by the popular Japanese ...
A revealing portrait of novelist Thomas Hardy as a womanizer
In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...
Yes, there’s a ‘Shawshank Redemption’ play, and it’s come to the D.C. area
NextStop Theatre is the latest to produce the stage version of “The Shawshank Redemption,” which is adapted from the original ...