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Transforming the basement into something a bit more cozy and fun for the boys is a nice sentiment, but if all you’ve got is a couch down there, you’re just not doing the space or your beau justice. Why not add a bar to round it out? Below, you’ll be …

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 IN 1922, James M. Cain traveled to the coal fields of southern West Virginia to cover the treason trial of union organizer Bill Blizzard. Cain was a young, ambitious journalist working for the Baltimore Sun. His time as a best-selling novelist, a Hollywood screenwriter, and a giant …

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 LAURA VAN DEN BERG’S 2015 novel, Find Me, tells one woman’s tale of surviving the post-apocalypse. In the first half, her world is clearly demarcated, a sterile hospital facility that keeps the survivors of an outbreak separated from the world outside. The second half takes place after …

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 NEW MICRO: EXCEPTIONALLY SHORT FICTION, edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro, collects 135 stories of fewer than 300 words written by 89 different authors. The diversity makes the experience of reading it rather like approaching a series of tide pools and dipping one’s face into one …

LONDON — The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, includes for the first time a book told in verse, the prize committee announced at a news conference in London on Thursday. “The Long Take,” by the poet Robin Robertson, mixes verse, …

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 “I THINK YOU BAILED when the world began to change,” writes journalist Michelle McNamara in an imagined letter to the Golden State Killer in the epilogue of her true crime memoir, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. She is offering a hypothesis to explain why the psychopath …

But “In God’s Name” spent 15 weeks on The Times’s best-seller list and won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger award for nonfiction in 1984. According to news reports and a foreword to a recent edition, the book has been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold more …

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 PRIOR TO THIS BOOK’S release, the only works by David R. Bunch widely available were two short stories in Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions, a landmark 1967 anthology that has never gone out of print. By contrast, Bunch’s novel Moderan, one of only two standalone works of fiction …

That was how Andy Warhol described Richard Bernstein, who gave Interview magazine covers their signature look. Everyone wanted it — until they didn’t. ImageRichard Bernstein, left, and Andy Warhol, circa 1980. Mr. Warhol, who commissioned Mr. Bernstein to create the covers for Interview magazine, said Mr. Bernstein “makes everyone look so …

THE LAST ENGLISHMEN Love, War, and the End of Empire By Deborah Baker 358 pp. Graywolf Press. $28. Imagine my surprise. More than half a century ago, I was taught geology at Oxford by a diminutive, pugnacious and leather-skinned Yorkshireman named Lawrence Rickard Wager, known to most (though perhaps not …