Karen Read was found not guilty of the most serious charges in her high-profile Massachusetts murder retrial in June 2025. In their fourth day of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend ...

In January, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Xenobe Purvis’s debut novel, about a small English village grappling with a dangerous rumor. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book Review and the host of the Book Review Book Club.

The retrial of Karen Read is shaping up to be altogether similar to her first murder trial, but there are several differences that could influence whether the jury reaches a verdict this time around. After the first trial last year ended in a hung jury and ...

Read is a 44-year-old financial analyst from Mansfield, Massachusetts who is standing trial for allegedly hitting and killing her boyfriend, former Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her SUV during a snowstorm in January 2022. Read pleaded not guilty ...

The jury in the second trial of Karen Read—the Massachusetts woman who allegedly killed her boyfriend in Jan. 2022, when authorities say she ran over him with her SUV, leaving him to die—began deliberations on Friday after hearing closing arguments in ...

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Now that’s attorney-client privilege. Karen Read was spotted cuddling up to her attorney Alan Jackson outside a high-end Boston steakhouse last week as jurors deliberated over whether she murdered her Boston cop boyfriend in 2022. The iPhone live photo ...

I research and write about happiness, so every year before Jan. 1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With reliable frequency, people tell me, “I want to read more.” Perhaps that’s not surprising. Most of us have the sense ...

Before she was 19, Shelby Zang didn't consider herself a reader. "You could not catch me reading a book," Zang tells TODAY.com. Then, during a gap year between high school and college, she started reading books she genuinely liked — and now she's able to ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read ...

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