With less than two weeks left in 2024, I have compiled a list of holiday novellas under 250 pages to not only help me reach my reading goal for the year but also to get me in the holiday spirit.

Walter Mosley again shows why he is a master of crime fiction. In Mosley’s new Easy Rawlins novel, “Farewell, Amethystine,” his hero is pulled into a missing-persons case that turns into ...

Reading the early works of established, revered writers always reminds me of looking at a baby’s face: how it seems impossible to know the ways that visage will sharpen and emerge, how mushy it ...

I started reading the Easy Rawlins mysteries in 2003, and, earlier this year, I accomplished my longstanding goal of getting current on the series (now at 16 books). At first, I barely noticed the ...

Try also If you want to stick to fiction, try Jhumpa Lahiri’s short novel, “Whereabouts”.In our appraisal in 2021 we wrote that she had taken risks for her craft that paid off beautifully.