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Founder of Last Chapter Book Shop in Roscoe Village says about 2,500 customers each week visit the emporium devoted to romance novels.

The poet pays homage to Chekhov in her second collection, in which boredom is both feared and acknowledged and desperation tussles with wit

The powerful tale of a traumatised woman’s search for a fresh start; the CIA’s debt to a group of female spies; and the tale of test cricket’s latest buzzword

A new documentary argues some young Jewish Americans – including the directors themselves – have been raised in a system that demands pro-Israel activism

The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October

The Everything I Know About Love author’s second novel mixes relationship maxims with sharp observations about thirtysomething life

The American’s second novel, narrated by characters both living and dead, feels like a wan echo of his debut

Officer who fought the insurrectionists and dealt with PTSD issues a cri de coeur for himself and for the US

The octogenarian writer brings her unique brand of sexy silliness to the story of a League One football team, with mixed results

The award-winning Irish author on losing his father at 18, the drawbacks of English editors and the theme of imprisonment in his work

The German language does it best – giving us single words that can be translated only into longish English sentences. Take sturmfrei, for instance. Literally “storm free’, it means something like “When your parents are away, and you have the whole house to yourself.” Or, a personal favourite, Backpfeifengesicht, which means, “A…