Your Guide to the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Shortlist 6

Umberto Eco’s fifth novel, The Prague Cemetery is the headline choice for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the winner of which is due to be announced on May 14.

Tuesday New Release Day: King, Eco, Schulze, Vonnegut, Catherine, Gallaway 1

Seven Reasons Why Alexandre Dumas Will Never Die 5

If every smart person’s goal in life is to die broke, then Dumas was an unqualified success. But while a lesser man would have bemoaned the cruelties of fate that left him penniless on his deathbed, Dumas had this to say about death as it approached him in 1870: “I shall tell her a story, and she will be kind to me.”