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Mark Crilley is a comic creator, artist and children's book author and illustrator, who also taught English in schools in Taiwan and Japan. He is the creator of the Akiko series of comic books from ...

There are books that arrive quietly into your life and then refuse to leave. 'Wintering' is one such book. It does not announce itself as a manual for resilience or healing. It does not shout about ...

Ian McEwan, the Booker Prize-winning author of "Amsterdam" and "Atonement," is back with a new novel, "Lessons" (Knopf), a winding, lifelong journey chronicling love, child sex abuse, and lost ...

A reader of my blog had recently recommended an economics book, Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt. Having an advanced degree in economics, I asked if he thought I would still find it ...