From Jane Smiley to Lisa Harding, Michael Farris Smith and Walter Mosley: This week’s best fiction 

From Jane Smiley’s fanciful fable to Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding, a period thriller by Michael Farris Smith and Walter Mosley’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry and Anthony Cummins and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 27 February 2021 The Strays … Read more

Allison Janney reveals that Anna Farris leaving the CBS sitcom Mom is a ‘huge loss’

With the hit sitcom Mom heading into the eighth season, the show will have a much different look, with Anna Faris not returning as Christy Plunkett. The actress made the rather surprising announcement in early September that she was not returning for the eighth season, and now her co-star Allison Janney is addressing her departure. … Read more

Michael Farris Smith and Malcolm Pryce: Thrillers of the month

From the haunting and compelling Blackwood by Michael Farris Smith to Malcolm Pryce’s riotous new Jack Wenlock novel, thrillers of the month By John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 Blackwood Michael Farris Smith                            … Read more