Anne Boleyn

You can now watch Wolf Hall as both a six-hour Broadway epic and acclaimed TV drama. The novelist Hilary Mantel is relishing her creation’s success, and looking to the future.

Two masters of the crime novel have new works: Jo Nesbo’s Police and George Pelecanos’s The Double.

From Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novels to a Showtime series, Anne Boleyn haunts us still. But why? Lauren Elkin on a new book, The Creation of Anne Boleyn, that traces the uses and abuses of her body, image, and legend throughout history.

UK's oldest continuously-used bed found

The novelist says she was set up as a 'hate figure' because of her comments about Kate Middleton.

This week: a dystopian novel from Sigrid Nunez, hilariously sharp essays from David Rakoff, “Bloody Queen” Mary revised in a new biography, the art world and Iraq clash in Sara Paretsky’s latest, and what the 2008 election meant for women.

This week: a bloody thriller from Cape Town’s mean streets, a call to save wildlife and wilderness by “rewilding,” a moving novel of a family’s struggle to overcome their tortured past, an investigation inside the lives of North Korean defectors, and a new biography of Anne Boleyn from bestselling author Alison Weir.