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There is a small dark room inside the Art Institute of Chicago: sixteen wooden columns, four illuminated Japanese screens, one bench. Clare DeTamble has been going there almost daily for three years because it is the only place in the city where she can weep without being observed. She is not waiting for anything. Her […]

Before a word of the story, there is a dedication naming seven men: Michael Collins, Dick Gordon, Jack Swigert, Stu Roosa, Al Worden, Ken Mattingly, Ron Evans. Apollo command module pilots. They flew a quarter of a million miles, parked in lunar orbit, and waited alone while two colleagues climbed down a ladder into history. […]

The past may haunt, but it doesn’t define in this nostalgic, found-family noir. The sequel to Antonini’s Bullets for Silverware, CANDYLAND maintains that same gritty atmosphere and suspense you seek from classic noir fiction. Michael, a newly appointed Harvard Scholar, is still recovering from the traumas of his past life. As a pharmacist in West […]

The most revealing scene in Promise Me Never by Liv Constantine contains no threat, no locked door and no dead woman. A famous novelist sits alone in his office, opens the bestseller rankings, and works down them one title at a time. He reads each synopsis. He takes notes. And he is looking, in his […]