Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles and also dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music.

Around 200 Agatha Christie fans gathered in Golden Age attire on the 17th floor of the News Building for HarperCollins’ ...

The final cast members of the new production of Agatha Christie’s best-selling crime novel of all time, And Then There Were ...

When an American attack on the German-held town of San Corrado results in the Germans being forced out of the town, they don't have time to take along a top Italian partisan leader they have ...

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

Richins wrote a children's book on grief called "Are you with me ... she just doesn't have the same connections to the community that she had then," the judge said.

We are not in an era characterized by much interest in political history (unless there’s a podcast on it ... far to find a moment when Democrats were similarly afflicted. In some ways, Election ...

“It takes years to figure out how a book fits together,” she said. “Sometimes one section speaks what is not said in another section. There’s so much listening within the book – to the ...

By then I was in my 70s ... Gatsby was that Nothing needs to be added to this novel, and nothing is extraneous. It goes without saying, but there are very few other novels with those qualities ...

but there's no telling how drastically different the weekly products would be if they were still around. Although there's never a good time to get hurt, the timing of certain setbacks this year ...