Every year I present a list of books that have been sidelined or maybe underappreciated in the mad scrum of publication; this ...

• Thomas R. Cech will speak about and sign his new book “The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets” at ...

Now he has decided to step into the shoes of his late father, John le Carré, in order to revive ... were always supposed to be more Smiley books”, adding that he grew up while his father ...

8. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A woman upends her domestic life in this irreverent and tender novel. 9.

Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

This week, George Smiley came back in from the cold, as the beloved fictional spy character from author John le Carré returned ... "The Hobbit", a children’s book that riffed off his growing ...

If you haven’t read any Smiley books, then this wouldn’t be a bad place ... meditative and moving. Fans of le Carré will have much to rejoice about - Tan Twan Eng The legendary Smiley’s return is a ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week include histories of corporate mismanagement and misbehavior in the 19th century (“Savings and ...

It was written by Nick Harkaway, the nom de plume of le Carré’s son. The book begins with an unexpected visitor and a mysterious disappearance. In the spring of 1963 a Soviet assassin named ...

He was a host on SBS’s The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia in the 1990s, and his time in people’s living rooms turned Tan into a household name among certain subsections of the Aussie public. The new ...

Harkaway is aware that he is treading into perilous territory with this book, which is strangely subtitled, “A John le Carré Novel.” Why not a “George Smiley Novel”? Is he signaling that ...