Jonathan Lippman has spent more than four decades working in New York’s state courts. For much of that time, he has been a sort of inside agitator, not only hearing cases and managing workloads but ...

Have you ever watched a show and almost instantly connected with a character? Not because they remind you of yourself, but because they’re giving the vibe of a ride-or-die homie and childhood bestie?

Book of the Month Club, founded in 1926, was once one of the most influential players in the book industry. But as Amazon has reshaped book selling the club’s membership has shrunk and the company has ...

Theo “Ted” Lippman Jr., a former Baltimore Sun editorial writer and author of several books, died Saturday morning of complications after a fall at his home in Fenwick Island, Del. He was 85. “He ...

Lippman at a union rally in 1996, when she was a reporter at the Baltimore Evening Sun. Photo: Jim Burger We start out south of the Inner Harbor, in the neighborhood where Lippman and her family live.

Something strange is afoot in mystery and suspense fiction. The plot of almost every thriller I've read in the past six months has had something to do with one character stealing the story of another ...

Crime novelist Laura Lippman has written a lively and lovely book of essays, “My Life as a Villainess.” (William Morrow, 288 pp., $18.99.) It’s like having a conversation with your mom — if she ...

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If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In the laugh-out-loud “Game of Crones,” Lippman writes of becoming a ...