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  1. ‘Peaky Blinders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ actor Helen McCrory dies at 52
    Yesterday• Life & Culture
    Actress Helen McCrory arrives at the British Academy Television Awards in London on May 8, 2016. McCrory, who starred in the television show “Peaky Blinders” and the “Harry Potter” movies, has died.
  2. ‘Wilder Heart of Florida’ beats with writers’ love for the state
    Apr. 15• Books
    Wilder Heart of Florida cover
  3. Lives brought to the brink in Gale Massey’s ‘Rising’
    Apr. 8• Books
    Gale Massey's short story collection is "Rising."
  5. Tyler Gillespie explains ‘The Thing About Florida’
    Apr. 8• Books
    Tyler Gillespie's new book is "The Thing About Florida."
  6. ‘Captain Underpants’ spin-off pulled for ‘passive racism’
    Mar. 29• Books
    Dav Pilkey arrives at the premiere of "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie" in 2017. A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series, “The Adventures of Ook and Glu," is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.”
  7. Poet, USF professor Natalie Scenters-Zapico wins major award
    Mar. 29• Books
    USF professor and poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico has won a 2021 Windham Campbell Literature Prize.
  8. Beverly Cleary, beloved children’s author, dies at 104
    Mar. 26• Books
    In this April 19, 1998 photo, children's book author Beverly Cleary signs books at the Monterey Bay Book Festival in Monterey, Calif.
  9. National book critics awards honor voices less often heard
    Mar. 26• Books
    Maggie O'Farrell received the National Book Critics Circle's 2020 fiction prize for her novel "Hamnet."
  10. Patricia Engel’s ‘Infinite Country’ traces journeys of the heart
    Mar. 24• Books
    Patricia Engel's latest novel is "Infinite Country."
  11. Pocketful of Sunshine State: Photos show Florida in a different light
    Mar. 23• Photos
    Michael Palmer and Demetrius play cards while having drinks in the water near the Courtney Campbell Trail in Clearwater on Aug. 1, 2020. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic many people turned to the outdoors to gather.
  12. Prince Harry gives advice to grieving children in new book
    Mar. 20• Nation & World
    In this Jan. 16, 2020, photo, Britain's Prince Harry arrives in the gardens of Buckingham Palace in London.
  13. Kazuo Ishiguro writes of artificial intelligence and human hearts in ‘Klara and the Sun’
    Mar. 11• Books
    Klara and the Sun is a new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro.
  14. Michael Koryta’s ‘Never Far Away’ is a dark thriller about a hunted family
    Mar. 4• Books
    Michael Koryta's latest thriller is "Never Far Away."
  15. Bosch is back: a new Michael Connelly TV series in the works
    Mar. 3• Books
    Titus Welliver will return as Harry Bosch in a new, as yet-untitled series on Amazon's IMDB TV.
  16. Sarah Penner’s ‘The Lost Apothecary’ an intriguing tale of domestic poison
    Feb. 25• Books
    "The Lost Apothecary" is the debut novel by St. Petersburg resident Sarah Penner.
  17. Hillary Clinton, Louise Penny team up for fictional ‘State of Terror’
    Feb. 24• Books
    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and bestselling mystery author Louise Penny have teamed up to write a novel, “State of Terror,” to be published Oct. 12. (Photos by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, left, and Jean-Francois Bérubé via AP)
  18. Poet, City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
    Feb. 23• Books
    Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti recites a poem after he was awarded the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the National Book Awards in New York, on Nov. 16, 2005. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller, has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021.
  19. A choir of voices recounts Black history in ‘Four Hundred Souls’
    Feb. 18• Books
    Four Hundred Souls cover
  20. Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins gives a lesson on Black history in 1969
    Feb. 18• Books
    "Blood Grove" is Walter Mosley's 15th novel about Los Angeles private detective Easy Rawlins.
  21. Dantiel Moniz’s ‘Milk Blood Heat’ tells moving stories of human need
    Feb. 11• Books
    Dantiel W. Moniz's debut story collection is "Milk Blood Heat."
  22. Celebrate Bucs Super Bowl win with Tampa Bay Times special section, front pages, book
    Feb. 8• Bucs
    Here's a preview of the Feb. 14 special section celebrating the Bucs' Super Bowl victory.
  23. Hunter Biden’s memoir ‘Beautiful Things’ out in April
    Feb. 4• Politics
    This cover image released by Gallery Books shows "Beautiful Things" a memoir by Hunter Biden. Biden, son of President Joe Biden and an ongoing target for conservatives, has a memoir coming out April 6. The book will center on the younger Biden's well publicized struggles with substance abuse, according to his publisher.
  24. ‘Call Me Commander’ tells the rest of the true story of a con man
    Feb. 4• Books
    The man known in Tampa as Bobby Thompson is pictured in a 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service from the Multnomah County (Oregon) Sheriff's Department.
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