Bring Up the Bodies News

Artwork by the man behind the Life of Pi's famous book cover is going on display at a Cambridge gallery.

From Ray Bradbury to Hilary Mantel, ''The Golem and the Jinni' author Helene Wecker shares her favorite magical realist books.

In an iTunes "Meet the Author" podcast recorded not long after Hilary Mantel won her unprecedented second Booker Prize for Bring Up the Bodies , the second volume in her projected fictional trilogy on the life of Thomas Cromwell now available in paperback from Picador, she talks about her reaction to the criticism from some readers that her treatment of her protagonist was too positive. Cromwell was an evil man, and moral rectitude required an author to make sure the reader knew it.

If you love getting inside the skin of how people lived in the past and have a spare 150 bucks to drop, you might want to consider The Folio Society's re-issue of a classic, Religion and the Decline of Magic .

This month's critic's pick is Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel . The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro .

One of Maya Angelou's doctors said she is recovering at home in North Carolina after being hospitalized, according to The Associated Press .