Before I start, just marvel at this: This is fan art from Deviantart (link in image below). Someone made this, and it perfectly depicts a scene in the book. Do you see the Enterprise? Serenity? Giant Japanese Robots and more po...
NPR has a new book review: Marisa Silver’s new novel imagines the meeting of a Depression-era photographer and her now-iconic subject. Giving the characters different names but similar stories to their real-life counterpa...
NPR has a new book review: In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are three literary matches made in heaven. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Originally written and published by at Books. ...
NPR has a new book review: Critic Alan Cheuse reviews Jess Walter’s new short story collection, We Live in Water. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us Originally written and published by ...
NPR has a new book review: By the time Wendy Plump learned that her husband had a longtime mistress and an 8-month-old son, their union already bore the scars of adultery — both his and hers. Plump’s marital post-mo...
NPR has a new book review: One of Kenya’s most famous citizens is author and professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o. His criticism of that nation’s post-colonial government led to his arrest and eventual exile. But he sa...
NPR has a new book review: In a new book, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography, religious scholar and author John J. Collins tells the history of the scrolls and the controversies they have prompted, and explores the questions the...
NPR has a new book review: Charlie LeDuff’s hard-boiled memoir, Detroit: An American Autopsy, gives readers a rough image of the decaying Rust Belt metropolis. But far from being belly up, the city is finally on the rise,...
NPR has a new book review: The confounding title of the self-referential novel Percival Everett by Virgil Russell signals its method, which seeks to erase lines between author and subject, reality and fiction. For Alan Cheuse, ...