Living in Western diplomatic privilege with cooks and maids and drivers, the women in the new novel “Absolution” spend their days attending luncheons, lectures and cocktail parties as the Vietnam War ...

Bethesda novelist Alice McDermott is on the hunt for “sparkly loaded things,” little golden question marks with wings that hover tantalizingly before her mind’s eye. There’s only one sure way to pin ...

Dragon Age: Absolution takes place between Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. The story focuses on Miriam, an elf who escaped slavery in the Tevinter Imperium and became a mercenary.

In 1963, Alice McDermott reminds us in her novel “Absolution,” both the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the president of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, were Catholics. This fact holds a ...

Cover art for “Absolution” owned by MCD Books. Science fiction and fantasy have their fair share of prequel narratives. The Hunger Games has “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” James Dashner’s Maze ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...