Claude Peck

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‘The Human Scale’ explores life between the bombs in the Middle East

Fiction: A slain Israeli cop sparks a violent chain reaction in the ancient city of Hebron.
March 3, 2025
photo of author Lawrence Wright

Review: The Troubles and the mob bring back a favorite detective in ’Hang On St. Christopher'

Fiction: Irish detective Sean Duffy, once more out of retirement…
February 25, 2025
photo of author Adrian McKinty

Geraldine Brooks remembers her husband (and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner) in ‘Memorial Days’

Nonfiction: A celebrated novelist confronts the sudden loss of her spouse.
January 27, 2025
photo of authors/spouses Tony Horwitz and Geraldine Brooks, seated at a table in front of a fireplace

Comic novel shows how ‘There’s a body in my bed’ turns into a ticket for success

Fiction: In a YA writer’s debut novel for adults, so much depends on a grim morning after.
November 25, 2024
photo of author Daniel Aleman

Kevin Barry will blow you away with Montana-set ‘The Heart in Winter’

FICTION: The Irish writer’s first novel set in America is a lyric heartbreaker.
July 3, 2024
photo of author Kevin Barry

You’ll be a fan of the hero of ‘Blessings,’ a young gay Nigerian who’s up against a lot

FICTION: The story of his coming of age makes for a memorable debut by a Nigerian writer.
June 20, 2024
photo of author Chukwuebuka Ibeh

When a sibling vanishes, three sisters are doing it for themselves in ‘The Alternatives’

FICTION: A reunion in rural Ireland becomes a reckoning.
April 10, 2024
photo of writer Caoilinn Hughes

In novel, ‘The American Daughters’ are Black women, fighting to end slavery

FICTION: In Civil War-era New Orleans, an enslaved girl becomes a spy for the Union.
February 20, 2024
photo of author Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Kevin Barry will blow you away with Montana-set ‘The Heart in Winter’

FICTION: The Irish writer’s first novel set in America is a lyric heartbreaker.
July 3, 2024
photo of author Kevin Barry

You’ll be a fan of the hero of ‘Blessings,’ a young gay Nigerian who’s up against a lot

FICTION: The story of his coming of age makes for a memorable debut by a Nigerian writer.
June 20, 2024
photo of author Chukwuebuka Ibeh

When a sibling vanishes, three sisters are doing it for themselves in ‘The Alternatives’

FICTION: A reunion in rural Ireland becomes a reckoning.
April 10, 2024
photo of writer Caoilinn Hughes

In novel, ‘The American Daughters’ are Black women, fighting to end slavery

FICTION: In Civil War-era New Orleans, an enslaved girl becomes a spy for the Union.
February 20, 2024
photo of author Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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