Doris Lessing has passed away at 94. Read John Leonard on her work from 2006.

Evelyn Waugh’s Victorian-era “blood book” is something worth checking out.

Begbie from Trainspotting makes a return.

You hear about the new leather-bound Philip Roth? 

Alex Ross on the witches choice in music on American Horror Story.

Speaking of occult stuff: The Witches of Bushwick!

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