Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesser has been reading crime fiction for decades — Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle but also French and Japanese thrillers ...

I began Wendy Lesser's "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books" with my usual yellow highlighter in hand, notepaper and pen at the ready, opening the reviewer's copy as I would for any normal ...

Michael Dirda has done it. So has Francine Prose. And Alberto Manguel, and Larry McMurtry, and David Shields, and Maureen Corrigan, and Anne Fadiman (over and over again). The Very Personal Book About ...

Wendy Lesser's new book, "Scandinavian Noir," dissects and investigates a genre with which the author grew obsessed long before it became a global phenomenon. (Read the Times' profile here.) It all ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Kate Tuttle Obsessions are by nature individual, and difficult at times to communicate to others.

Ever since Beethoven's time it has been a cliche to describe the string quartet - that intimate, deeply personal genre originally designed for no other listeners than the performers themselves - as a ...

Thirty-five years ago, Wendy Lesser decided to start a magazine. It was a bold move by the then-27-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student. At the time, Lesser was eking out a modest living as a ...

Ending -- In situ : Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- Preparing -- In situ : Kimbell Art Museum -- Becoming -- In situ : Phillips Exeter Library -- Achieving -- In situ : National Assembly ...