Lost Lambs follows the Flynn family, each in personal crisis, as they grow up and unravel their town’s secrets. Your comic voice has been praised to the skies. How important is humour in your writing?

This tender satire of a dysfunctional American family’s search for moral guidance is precisely what our times need Making the comic novel succeed is a rich, tricky project in our age of desperate, ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Novelists committed to depicting contemporary life face an unprecedented challenge in ...

A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, “Lost Lambs.” By John Maher John Maher is an editor at the Book Review. When ...

The Windsor Legacy: A Royal Dynasty of Secrets, Scandal, and Survival by Robert Jobson explores the last 100 years of the British royal family. Topics covered include the scandalous abdication of ...

One thing to be said for the splintered families of three new novels is that being dysfunctional is better than being nonfunctional—at least an effort is being made. In Madeline Cash’s delightfully ...

In the beginning were the gnats. “Lost Lambs,” Madeline Cash’s riotously assured debut novel, opens inside Our Lady of Suffering as the pests swarm through services, multiplying faster than Father ...

Claros Mortgage Trust is trading at a substantial 75% discount to book value per share. This stood at $12.24 at the end of its fiscal 2025 third quarter. The mREIT has seen its book value on a ...

SEATTLE — A controversial exchange about hiding U.S. dollar bills in books during a government policy briefing is drawing reactions from Koreans in the United States. Some say the remark exposed an ...

Yet another twist has come our way regarding the impending sale of Warner Bros. Discovery. As one of the biggest companies in entertainment, WBD has attracted several powerful buyers to submit bids ...

Boeing Co. announced a $4.9 billion accounting charge and delayed debut for its 777X jetliner, a reminder of the long recovery ahead for the US planemaker even as rising aircraft deliveries bolster ...

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have differing viewpoints about his memoir. After Spears, 43, claimed her ex-husband’s upcoming book, You Thought You Knew, is a cash grab, Federline, 47, begged to ...