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Review: Cary Grant bio a perceptive look at captivating star

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Oct 20, 2020 7:00 am - 'œCary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise'ť by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster) Self-trained English actor Archie Leach pulled off the role of a lifetime: becoming Hollywood lege...
Book review: Charting Kendrick Lamar's evolution from platinum-selling rapper to protest artist

By Allison Stewart The Washington Post
Oct 20, 2020 6:00 am - "The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America" by Marcus J. Moore (Atria Books) One night during the wrenching summer of 2015, a Cleve...
Book review: A poignant, and fab, mosaic of the Beatles

By Charles Arrowsmith The Washington Post
Oct 19, 2020 6:00 am - "150 Glimpses of the Beatles" by Craig Brown (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) "They ARE awful. But I also think they're fabulous. Let's just go and say hello." What if y...
Book review: A moving portrait of John McCain, in all his contradictions

By Geoffrey Kabaservice The Washington Post
Oct 18, 2020 7:29 am - "The Luckiest Man: Life With John McCain" by Mark Salter (Simon & Schuster) There was no one like John McCain. But readers may come away from Mark Salter's outstand...
Gregory Maguire says his latest book 'is like comfort food'

By Alicia Rancilio Associated Press
Oct 17, 2020 7:28 am - NEW YORK - Gregory Maguire attributes the first grain of the idea for his new book, "A Wild Winter Swan," to "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers. He met her 25 years ago ...
Book review: New thriller 'Goodnight Beautiful' tweaks the 'unreliable female narrator'

By Julia Rubin Associated Press
Oct 15, 2020 6:00 am - "Goodnight Beautiful" by Aimee Molloy (Harper) Early on in the deliciously twisty "Goodnight Beautiful," one of the main characters, a charismatic guy wh...
Book review: Ian Rankin's 'A Song for the Dark Times' contains two mysteries

By Jonathan Elderfield Associated Press
Oct 13, 2020 7:07 am - "A Song for the Dark Times" by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown) Ian Rankin's best-known character, John Rebus, typically resides in the dark world of the human...
Review: 'A Song for the Dark Times' contains two mysteries

By JONATHAN ELDERFIELD
Oct 12, 2020 7:00 am - 'œA Song for the Dark Times,'ť by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown) Ian Rankin's best-known character, John Rebus, typically resides in the dark world of the human soul and thi...
Review: New thriller tweaks the `unreliable female narrator'

By JULIA RUBIN
Oct 12, 2020 7:00 am - 'œGoodnight Beautiful,'ť by Aimee Molloy (Harper) Early on in the deliciously twisty 'œGoodnight Beautiful,'ť one of the main characters, a charismatic guy who we're get...
Five excellent new thrillers and mysteries take us back to the pre-COVID-19 era

By Richard Lipez The Washington Post
Oct 10, 2020 7:28 am - Five excellent new mysteries and thrillers out this autumn all take place in "normal" times. Though in one - Val McDermid's "Still Life," set this past February - a char...

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