The Canadian author of the prescient 1984 novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ looks back on a prolific career and shares life lessons in ‘Book of Lives.’ ...

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Atwood's 'Book of Lives' has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — ...

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Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all ...

Five minutes is all it takes to make a simple PB&J sandwich. You can watch an episode of your favorite crime drama in an hour. In 24 hours’ time, your heart will beat 100,000 times to pump roughly ...

Shadow Ticket starts with a bang. “The explosion when it comes seems to be from somewhere across the river and nearer the Lake,” Thomas Pynchon writes. “Nobody seems surprised.” In language and ...

After 20 years, Arizona band The Format has come back for a reunion tour, performing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Monday, Oct. 6. Taylor Swift will also be on The Tonight Show on Oct ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all ...