Scotland’s so-called “Queen of Crime,” Val McDermid, has created an engrossing, page-turning counternarrative about one of Shakespeare’s great villains, Lady Macbeth. McDermid sets the record straight ...
Percival Everett’s “James” has won the Book Award for fiction. The book is a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” For nonfiction, Jason De León’s “Soldiers and ...